7 Not So Much 8 Serpentine 9 Lithuanian Dolls/Consulate Front10 Begin And Beguile11 Fire Bush12 Skootematta13 Animals And The Stars14 And Then Some15 Woodsy Backwoods Poem16 Corner Store Fifties Reveille17 Trout Lake Hotel18 Northwoods Poem19 Orange Lichens20 Six Owlets21 Twillingate22 Bravura23 Whisky Girl24 High Frequency Draw (High Alert)25 Red Fox (Red Horse Lake)26 When I was a Much Younger Man
Not So Much
I evaded capture todaywith only a handful of dustto escape that Old Sandman Death.Certainly, those maroon berries,so large & luscious,crowded on their fat stemshad something to do with itas did the ground fogleaving its burrow as so many boll-weevilstheir crowded nests.And there might be something to the factthe moonlight satfat & confidant in the night skyas surelyas my head rests on this pillowand the poem invites itselfinto my lair of thoughts,much as nestlings charge theentrance to the runwayof a tree.I walked flat outin an instanceas standing urineheld its own stenchand the grim splash within the ponddead center in the wildernessunderscores the tone of this warning.One thought encapsulates wonderthough suggestive evil hidesleaden leaves buried in lake muddown the corner eaves of someone'sfire hydrant mind.When you pray for someonean Angel sits on their shoulder,when that same someone hates youdoes that Angel die of grief?Serendipity is a flowerand those cloudsre-arranging the breezeharbingers of forbidden thingsnot so much like these bouldersuse hand-held scissors to open twilightand watch this fading light ebb forthtip-I-toe like a birdsqueezed thru an openingin its cage. [7]
Serpentine
More fragment of treethan serpentclothed in wethe mirrors mebedraggled in stonecloak or so it seemsthis cavernous ledge coven.Is he witch's totemswimming at yard's lengthI can web reach himstartling darts of raincutting lagoon's edgethis sedge & eel grass dragon. [8]
Lithuanian Dolls/Consulate Front
These eyes of dolls seem leaden stonesnot canisters
