Salt Fields
Yellow-burning haymakers Stretch to the sea with lazy fingers, Combine harvesters chugging, The first day of autumn Burning the paint on their engines,
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What An Island Knows
Low tide murmurs as a bass voice receding, Revealing the survivors in its wake, A broken box of fish from the harbour mouth, Seaweed limp and passive on the rocks,
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Where Stern Follows Prow
By the church, fragments of psalms Catch the air, too late to save Remains of the humble fishing boat. Upturned as the boats of Boanerges, Sons of thunder to calm the water,
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The Molloch Ballet
Near the sheer shore where Poseidon’s symphony floats over dusky night water, factory gears twirl and push concrete and lights up, up, up into the smog-orange sky where frozen they stay
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As my mind slowly ponders on visions of you.
As my mind slowly ponders on visions of you: Oh… how I long to see you gently smile, As you twist a curl, and then so deftly fly, You seem to fall; yet are forever strong,
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The Season of Love
First he unfolds his golden peacock feathers, then sun and earth, in love, are joined together; the butterflies make love beds on the thistle and little lovebirds woo with songs and whistles;
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Persecution
9 315 562, 232 55 315 [ I can not; but we can] I heard the echoing of my own maniacal laughter, and the frantics of screaming that came soon after; It was mine.
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Children of Three
She loved her cards, sent from the children of three; Held in her withered hands of tissue in scarring. Adults as they had grown to be, but the memory of her, left them as her children, still.
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