ConeyIsland (to You)

It is in

These early dawn

Hours when asleep

You all are

That I find

My greatest peace

You still sleeping

Yet I am

Now dreaming these

Delicate petit fours

Sweet and savory

Morsels of memory

That tickle and

Hang and dissolve

And disappear into

Another and another

These waves coming

Ashore bringing with

Them trinkets of

By gone times

That I collect

Like a child

On Coney Island

Wondering where they

Started then remembering

It was there

Of course way

Way out there

And reaching out

To the horizon

I pinch that

Thin line between

Sea and sky

Gone they go

Replaced now by

Your sleepy eyes

Looking at me

WheatFields

Standing amidst fields

Of wheat I

Hear the delicate

Sound of wind

Pushing the kernels

Together like my

Mother’s brush on

Linoleum floors in

Other people’s homes

Standing here free

From those days

So long ago

This sound sings

Now to me

Degrees of simple

Silence a place

Of quiet forgiveness

For her many

Years of sadness

ItsThis

There is one

Thing that every

Living thing does

At least once

And it’s not

The thing that

You’re thinking now

But perhaps it’s

The thing that

You’re doing now

It’s this smile

SkinnyBranches

Way out here

Is the roost

Of few things

Namely angels and

Ideas and aviary

Simply because from

Here one does

One of two

Things take flight

Or fall flatly

Both are marvelous

Because it’s only

Here out on

The skinny branches

Can miracles happen

SundayMorn

The sky is

Filled with plump

Blimps tethered to

Trees by the

Dropped lines of

Falling silent rain

Above halos of

White sunshine hovers

Like deep stark

Snowdrifts on rooftops

Apt to fall

At the least

Shake of warmth

Above that days

Blue blemishes peek

Like curious children

Through the knotholes

Of weathered pine

As the deep

Rich aromatic brew

Wafts beside me

And silence silences

Every other thing