I Yesterday, as I sat on my big uprooted driftwood alder tree to write, the […]
Category Archives: Carkeek Poems
Broken Specs
specs: short for “spectacles” or glasses specs: short for “specifications” or a set of instructions […]
Impulse to Shelter
Kids on the beach propping up driftwood into teepees Stuffing dried seaweed into the cracks […]
The Morning After
After a rare balmy April Friday evening. Saturday morning: the remains of a fire the […]
Politics
A group of newly arrived ducks not the year-round resident mallards make their way in […]
Guide
From time to time as I walk the beach a particular crow will amble ahead […]
Rescue Dog
As I was about to face today’s blank page without vision or inspiration on an […]
Salmon J
Today the herons are amorous and feisty though August mist is falling And an exposed […]
Subject Matter
Often as I walk up the beach to my poem-writing place some words have formed […]
Man-Seal
Don’t say the age of wonders is behind us! Don’t throw your reductive soulless materialism […]



