older poems

Some of these poems reach back twenty or thirty years. I think is it time to send them out.


of this we wonder


what is

superfluous in this

wide open flower

of a world; always and ever

conceiving

the light forward

and fecund;

even famine and flood,

yes, (of mysteries)

a sob, a song resounding

beyond memory’s cave

(flashes fo fire

flickering the walls)

of this we wonder;

what is

real and even in the

brightest flower

there dances amidst

the fond petals some

small shadow