Lift up the cover and look
at the things scattering,
hidden, secret things;
the way insects
...
I shake a fist in defiance
of anything stood for
anything false,
...
Grey skies, grey water
in canals.
Bare branches turning
the barest of green
...
To the reader of this poem-
a face in the mass,
with stony gaze, or hollow eyes,
or blessed with a far-away look;
...
With a flick of a switch
I discovered the entire
world had jumped without me.
...
Japanese beetle lace
hangs as delecately
as moth-eaten curtains
shrouding the field
...
Broken soul glass
works the shards in deep
a guarded heart forgets
how to beat in the
...
They're putting up a Wal-mart at the edge of town,
adding to the sprawl and softening
the town limits with a slab of asphalt-
this is no one person's fault, this is progress,
...