Community and empathy are as inherent in and definitional of human being as body and mind. To be human is to be empathically bound together in communities.
Absences
He throws himself down
on the grass. His grandfather
asks, “Are you okay?”
Clutter
Readers, lend me your
minds; I come to praise clutter,
not to bury it,
Warning
Outside my window,
a curved mess of a plane tree,
a straight, clean street light,
Greenport 6
Home, in the eye of
a centuries-long storm of
civilization,
Greenport 5
Out here, on the edge
of the centuries-lashing
populated storms,
Greenport 4
In the old house, drafts,
the wafts of the constant wind
washing illusions
