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.
Category: Roy Herndon Smith
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
