Poem Category: Miscellaneous

moonless
back to my childhood
naked in the surf.

the week-end drizzle
composing us mushrooms
between the trees.

high dive
the boy leaps out to
the rush of water.

Slide me whole to waves
no hillside grave with dank soils
creeping down to sea.

Midnight swim
our hands wiping moonshine
from each other’s face.

Bag-woman asleep
the bus stop crowd
standing guard.

Mouse in the corn
some scarecrow shade
under the old girl’s dress.

Grandmother’s garden
wiping the damp mosses
from her sand-stone seats.

Fire works
shortening his chain
the guard dog’s fear.

Sunlit lake
the salmon swallows bugs
from the hole it just made.