Neap

I was all for looking neat

The painter at your feet

A weekends lost receipt

I put myself to sleep

You were all for being deep

Conscience that you keep

For all their failed deceit

I put myself to sleep

from the collection
The Curved Ball of an Artists Model
Love Encouraged By the Breakout
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Basis

Scent

The one last probable great imponderability

That calls you back into my life

Scent

That I can pick off the pages, or dissolve 

From another young woman’s photograph

Years have passed

Way beyond absolution

Arches of roses collapsed

Bicycle of joys trundled

Certain as the stones

Laid out before

We, as all others

Caught by institution

Scent

Homogeneous in a few lines of text

That neither you nor I wrote

Scent

Worthy of being named the great imponderable 

That rolls you back into my life

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The Curved Ball of an Artists Model
Love Encouraged By the Breakout
Available from itunes by clicking here

Listen & Observe (Spring)

A creaking door opens

Birds chirp

A solitary eastern cabin

Placed on an island platform

In the middle of a lake

Strings of bells chime quietly

The teacher yells at the young boy

It is time to get up

To sweep clean the boardwalk

Before we jump into the rowing boat

from the collection
The Curved Ball of an Artists Model
Love Encouraged By the Breakout
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Listen & Observe (Into Great Silence)

From the mist to the prayer

Rising and falling

Knock on wood

Patience comes calling

Quiet, stillness; silence jinxed

An identity parade

A single eye winks

I am seduced

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The Curved Ball of an Artists Model
Love Encouraged By the Breakout
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Row

Lavender fields steal away my resentment

Instead to reel off the whiled away hours

Wander among the rows of fragrant flowers

Shower the love; as once upon the coastal towers

Powered another kind of war

Loss of love, touched along the shoreline 

Unable to handle that which turns sour

The smitten intellect weaves away with power

Seeds planted in rough ground; scoured

Redefined in a clumsy kind of score

from the collection
The Curved Ball of an Artists Model
Love Encouraged By the Breakout
Available from itunes by clicking here