| Short Stories |
| Stories From a Childhood in Maine |
| Essays |
| Poetry - Haiku |
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sitting in lotus
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old men rake
leaves
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| cloth dolly gripped in tiny hand broken eyes ~ still loved |
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| worn leather boots in the wood shed mouse whiskers barely visible |
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| the seashells are gone old men search for wedding rings ~ Santa Monica Beach  |
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| beneath a persimmon tree drowsy silence bee drowns in my beer bottle |
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| the Oak bleeds frozen tears ~ Maine in winter |
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| bees having great sex in the hollyhocks laughing mice mill beneath the ground ~ spring in Cornish |
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| house full of boys crashing doors ~ "I'm home, Ma!" summer |
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excellent earth
winds |
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little mirthful child doesn't know the seasons a spider swings safely from his ear |
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