Selected Poems

Beautiful Within

Intricately filigreed

Physiology

Jasmine, jasper, alabaster,

Lavender, cerise

Chartreuse, orchid, dodger blue,

Subdued sanguine ribboned thin

Thistle, bisque and honeydew

Beautiful within.

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Change of Season

The wind worn leaves ornament late autumn's floor

In peaceful respite, restfully, until

Old man winter kicks ajar his door

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Rasping Sand at Sea

Rasping sand at sea

Blanketing the beached marine

Life, with gritty sheets

Scratchy saline gabardine

Tucked in seashells sweetly dream

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Diminutive Significance

I am the moss

on the trunk

of a butternut

Velvet green

and fecund

Beautifully

blanketing bark

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Noticing This Room Where People Cook

Slurping purple soda

through a circus straw

elbows on a maple tabletop

china bowl is holding

apples mama got

from the grocer

at the corner store

linoleum is glowing

due to broom and mop

kitchen windows

have a film of sorts

slurping purple soda

through a circus straw

noticing this room where people cook