Pour  From mind to page, page to mind, or light  through window. Fluid like a swallow flight  lip of pitcher, lifted, tilted  as land tilts to sea, as sea is tipped by tide onto the shore,  everything spills into something else  These buttercups pour yellow on the grass; the snake flows  from his skin. My […]

SPRING COMES SLOWLY Spring comes slowly in these parts ~            Like an old woman in the produce aisle,            hungry for new asparagus and fiddleheads            suspicious of bright strawberries            too soon, too soon Spring comes slowly […]

THE  LYRICS OF SPRING   Melting. The thick crust of winter      that crystallized life      holding it captive Is broken. In its place run      splashing veins of ice water Between the rocks Along the paths All singing their freedom In voices that challenge     the pounding of the sea. […]