You Are
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You are not a garden god
Smiling cross-legged in the rain
Under a backyard bush.
You are not two precisely
Measured eye-sockets
In a computerized
Security camera's scan
Of a passing crowd.
You are n...
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Skate Board Dancer
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On Salt Spring Island many wear leather hats,
Southwestern,
Broad brimmed, flamboyant, hand-made,
And each one uniquely appointed
With beads and feathers and bones.
A young woman, wearing such a hat,...
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From The Centre
I watch
a wild wind tear
my garden house apart
that has stood against
many years of blown
snows and summer suns
flies jangling wind chimes
sideways in whirling snow
scatters torn shards
of this broke...
Simple Equity
a choir softly sings,
filling gaps and cracks
between planets,
days making choices,
bridging stars.
A cloud of witnesses
mists up
from slow river at dawn,
sings at dusk,
rising, falling with winds
o...
Glass Bell In The Storm
Glass Bell In The Storm
The glass bell, it seemed like a glass bell,
Not for ringing, or for an African violet,
Or to grow an orchid, encase a clock,
But to keep the storm out from around my canoe.
...
Casino
Poker gods strut sacred
casino ampitheatres,
red and black, polished wood,
green velvet,
hushed voices.
Silent fighting cocks,
sleek and shining roosters
with knives,
circle in a ring,
brandishing c...
Invitation
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Invitation
Long hooded days
cape enshrouded skies
gone your blue ice jewels
snow mounted
glinting
rare as diamonds
Exorcist of sunless days
come tread my cabin trail
leave your blue transparent pri...
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My Pond
My Pond
By day a carnival of ducks
By night a serenade of frogs
Singing for love.
Stars and street lamp moon
Dance on the water.
At noon, blue sky
Glimmers with reflections
Of leaning maples,
Purpl...
Bargain Of Hades
Bargain of Hades
Does the keeper find the rent I pay a little thin,
I heard a door bolted behind me,
could there be a change of weather
on the wind?
I walk a path overlooking cliffs by the sea,
it...
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