Explorations: poems

Becoming T.S. Eliot.

Life and death.

In the beginning.

The bear.

West Side memories.

First tug.

The climbing tree.

The kite.

Summer is here now.

At the beach.

Pullman memories.

Riverworld.

Dad.

World's Fair.

September 1, 1939.

Growing up.

Under the apple bough.

- Early explorer.

Pie.

Pictures then and now.

Listening to Fats Waller.

Seventen.

The crew.

Driving to the Sun.

Blossom time.

To the source.

Marblehead.

Seeing water.

Ode to an island.

Orinocoes of the imagination.

Cotopaxi.

A manatee comes to Manhattan.

Birds in black.

The crows in the rain.

The voices of stones.

Polished stones.

Variations on a year.

Variations on a day.

Memorial Day.

The things they carry.

Citizen soldier.

The charms of war.

Veterans Day 2006.

In memory of.

Boots on the ground.

Remembering Vientiane.

THe veterans.

I see myself becoming old.

On the downhill side.

Misogynistic mutterings.

watermelon boy.

Still delightingg in snow.

A world that was.

Listening to Ravel.

Silver is the color of my true love's hair.

Sugar and spice.

I feel your heartbeat.

SIlly man.

Surrounded by the Universe.

Play jolly music at my funeral.

Last words.