DUSIE

    pulling vines from the silver extension ladder. some are tiny-leaved and brown some still thick and prickly with blackberries in pudges ...

    carpenter ants slide in & out of the baseboard  climb the erect stretch of paneling soldiers      sisters to the sexless  fu...

    I imagine her pacing the hall, at times pausing before the halo of an open door, one I cannot follow her through.  A lifetime ago ...

    The poem begins with figures of speech or figures of fun, a fig newton, a figment imagination flares on mind’s old screen. We find c...