Incubated Thoughts
German potato pancakes
Black driftwood, green glass table
Remembered in 8mm outtakes
Walls of paste up movie stars
Mom’s beady eyed, tail biting sable
Pop’s scissors constant motions
Rusted out dated cars
Banjo tunes
Not too distant Notre Dame notions
Flat bottomed skiffs
and Great South Bay loons
Blue eyed cousins by the dozens
World’s Fair dinosaurs
All night crabbing moons
Hammocked father, snores
Wood grained rabbit ears tuned into Apollo oceans
Dough balls made for Twin Lakes fishing
Air flight with shoe box full
of pregnant Garter snakes
Vic’s Vaporub lotions
Tonsil removal “Party”
with
pick-up tardy
Sailor cap surgery
Thick glasses engineered for loneliness
Parental perjury
Synthetic hosiery
Pig roasts, fondue cookery
Two foot snows
Dioxin laden lawns
Thalidomide spawns
Five hundred vocal,
collected toads
Italian bread search excursions
Green painted roads
“Bozo the clown’s” perversions
Mellon crate go-carts
Back yard combat
Welcome doormat
Red ribboned shovel at birth
“Betty Crocker’s” money’s worth
Yellow school bus diesel fumes
Kindergarten circus ringmaster
“Catcher in the Rye” upheaval
First air traffic disaster
Live Polio virus
with sugar cube seduction
Track house expansion
“On the look out for evil”
The little boy without an ear
Kiddy pool vigils
“Ban-lon” shirts
The three horse shoes: our symbols
Cold war bomb shelters with
under chair Air-Raid rehearsals
Fog horn interuptus
Five boys stoning a goose
Solar eclipse occlusions
Instant chocolate mousse
A Levittown stoop, first kiss
Rain-making bongos
Car top deer rack
This: a short time with on an ebbing tide