(2007)
Click: the saddest sound. The door closing on another Moment of my life.
for you who toil, Rest. for you who grieve, Comfort. for you who hunger,
Walking alone on streets I was fa… felt that I was lost. If it weren… A-spin, I looked for my map And saw that I was lost.
I held the rose So long ago, Held it tight, too well, And still, the thorn lives Deep 'neath the skin,
Winds swirl around me In their familiar way, A touch here, another there, They move me along. I’m like a leaf:
The blue of the sky Meets the green of the sea In the white of thousands of years… Frozen in a two-sided mirror of ti… You look back to see the past reve…
The snow slipped in (we watched for it all day long) Like a secret lover slipping out o… All that we saw (when we finally s… Were the footprints showing where…
I’ve seen this pattern before, I… the story might end differently, b… The smell of burning leaves is in… fragrance that rivals the finest r… damp-leaf perfume cleanses the min…
She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it… She thought some and said,
He has tiny fingers, tiny toes, tiny ears, and a tiny nose.
I wish I had the words to describ… the quiet of a sunrise, the softness of rain on my arms, the fascination of a child with he… the liquid silver of morning dew o…
Dirty hands clasped in prayer, Dusty fingers raised to the sky, Pleading for the same blessing. It had been weeks since the last r… leaves folded upright keeping thei…
The sunrise sun backlit the now br… it passed through them to light a… of fog strewn across the road. I shuffled through those pages ear… would have done so without me.
Listen when the butterfly Settles onto your hand, Feel the footsteps. Marvel in the paper-thin Jewel that has flown to you.
Thirty miles to the west, sleet an… thirty sleeps the bay, temperer of… While snow and ice chill the west,… up to our chins. Here by the ocean… Instead of the sound of waves grow…