Eye once pretended
to be a grandmother
to a giant dog of white
Eye bought him toys
for children —
to add to his delight —
a shark of pink
a little seal
a whale for a babe
These toys of fluff
were thrown to him
destroyed for his avail
Looking east I see
The Sleeping Giant
lolling in the lake
and at my feet
a stream hushes
the early morning lights
of three ships
nestled before it
On May 8, 2017
I completed a beautiful painting
The first in many years
and the first of its type
with applied 3 dimensional objects
— these were silver butterflies —
emerging from a seething mass of black
Chaos
against a smattering of cherry red
and lime green
with one silver winged symbol of freedom
Unscathed
ornamenting the upper right hand space
but for last night’s jostling
upheaval
of failed marriage
lonely occupancy
in my house stuffed
with my subsequent outpouring of art
The silver butterfly, the escapee
is broken now
with one half a wing
glued beside it
never to be replaced
Those long-necked
Ladies of Leisure
Drop dead
On queen-size bed spreads
Leaving us
Their husbands
Their cigarettes
As Eye sit
at McDonalds again
to wait for the shadow
of the roofline
to chase me away —
it’s here!
Good bye Beach
Eye will not even go to you
to say good bye —
I have loved you so
as you have soothed me
to no end but for the ending now —
I have transitioned into My New Life
to move away
to Thunder Bay
where I will carry you
in my heart
and know your rythms
to be my own.
Good bye Scraggly Apple
You hold 2 sprigs of life
but that is not why I’ve kept you:
You are beautiful in your death pose
and the birds I’ve loved
are your visitors.
I will miss you, maybe
on a rainy day
when I write from my new abode
in Thunder Bay
far away
from my backyard
friend.
Good bye house
Eye have been with you for ten years
You have served me well
I have found my voice
within your walls
and from you I have gazed
at the sea.
Eye will be leaving you now
for Thunder Bay
and my beautiful daughter Eliza
whose growing up I missed
even when she was here
with you for a delicate
frame of time.
