Best Dockside Poems

She took him in completely 
that first day of July 
walking across a dockside 
capturing  his soul 
harnessing all of the gentle love 
of an Irish man 
 
in the second it takes 
for a dream to come true 
futures were decided 
as easy...

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Sturgeon Moon
So soon
Summer slips through our fingers
Our own version of Michigan underwater beasts
Ogling the luminous bellies of boats swimming down Clam River

Dockside a roar with Ahab revelers

I have seen millions of moons
Leaping on the midnight ripples of Torch Lake

I have seen hills and pointes that...

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