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BEACH GLASS – A PANTOUM The shock, the joy of recognition Green or aqua, sometimes brown, occasionally blue Fragments sanded soft, glass hissed into jewels Plucked from sandy shore on a summer’s day Collage of colour, a mason jar full The shock, the joy of recognition Finding something precious, unexpected Fragments sanded soft, glass hissed […]

 FOUR HAIKU FOR SPRING                                  Why these thoughts of spring?     Is it the smell of the air,            the light on the snow?                       […]

  WRITTEN ON THE MAINLAND  In all the moss-deep silences, And all the dappled wells Of silence, gray and green and gold, In closely woven spells  The trees make, in the island’s heart– Still half-uncaptured we Within ourselves must hear the sound Of slanting, murmurous sea.  It is an island’s value that Each least thing, […]