Pilings Poems

Storm Brings Disaster

...This form is called, Laurette.
Love rest on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Rumi    

A raging surf
Pounds the white shore
And the pilings o...

Stained Glass Pane

...One day—
The sea will be my backyard
Every morning, standing upon the deck
Of the one called Going Numb
A “Greatest Dad” mug in one hand
My last vice burning orange in the other

I wi...

12 Foot Skiff

...oars barely skim the surface
skiff glides smoothly
as if floating on the dense fog
cormorants perch on pilings
silence broken by hungry gulls
rising sun glistens water
salt air invigorates my b...

Little Island

...sigh …

a lifetime ago
I breathed here, vital -
dangled my topsiders over these
pier stones and pilings
tempting the dark leviathans
that swam beneath the bloated
August moon, reflected …
ki...

The Bridge At Argenteuil - With Apologies To Claude Monet

...I could've gone to Holland. I could've gone to Spain.
I could've gone to Denmark. I could've gone insane,
But instead I came here, where the river mirrors life
In a fractured, dream-like way on th...

Avoiding the Flames

...You are in your blue period -
turquoise swimsuit, buoyant in azure.

Behind your shoulder,
Brighton West Pier,
A snap taken at an amateurish angle,
you’re diving sideways into the waves,
the g...

Nauti 'N Nice

...No penance need be paid by the insular artisan
admonished for seeking an oral platinum quota.
Under furlough! Tuck their perfume in a bureau, 
then intermittently release the poise to up-start
in...

Waiting At Pier 11

...Helicopters hover;
Boats bounce on the waves.
Seagulls swoop and pigeons strut;
A toddler misbehaves.

Tourists take their selfies;
Cars in traffic crawl.
New construction blocks the sky 
Wit...

under the pier 1 -

...
I didn't mean it ...
     you were everything, didn't you know??
          didn't I show you in a thousand little ways?
     (at least as many sizable ones) ...

          but I can't take...

Theater of Utter Charm Part 15

...the inside attempting to outside
each with its own absurd shopping list
we are after all composite beings
clumps and aggregates and glomerations
made up from all the faces we have seen
all the p...

The Sea-Cook's Lover, Part Ii

......One night I asked who it was,
she said,”Just a man I used to know.”
She would never say more than that,
so I decided wisely to let it go.

But that night, like every other,
when midnight rol...

Theater of Utter Charm Part 1

...Irritatingly often unnecessarily compliant
to the whims of those about him
endlessly wordlessly wondering
about the many demented subjective qualities
of our ever present mammalian imperative via...

a sparkle, nascent -

...
oh, Dear Indulgence ...

desolate, obscure, I know you not, (and have known you not),
    still, do I not know the glint there, in your eye? Aye, it abides
     me from ages hence ... I was...

Darkness Fishing

...With darkness
Fishing
 No appreciation
When beaten
 Lies with submission
Stagnant streams
 Overflow under dreams
Fish in spawning
 Under currents churning
Filet knife honed
 Scales in pilin...

Drifting Away

...Drifting Away

All alone one might think they stand in muddy water unclear
Now feeling like a drowned rat in time and not utter a peep,
Where all at once there might have been a wooden pier
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