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camouflage
and sleeping seagrass
Glauert's seadragon
sea glass . . .
plastic pieces hiding
in a child's drink
row after row the poplars on one side of my teenage self
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spring roundup —
three cowboys drive a herd
up Main Street
on the Yellowstone
old shaggy bulls pose
for paparazzi
waiting team ropers
grip tobacco cans
with stumps of lost thumbs
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shy intruder
in the village pond
a red moon
finally at rest
against the wall
the pole’s shadow
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calmer now
but never calm
the sea
long winter
finding each squeak
in the floorboards
the perfect lawn
my dandelion seeds
blowing into it
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a home
in the scent of lavender
a white butterfly
pine forest
a little bird perfects
its aria
snowflake...
the shape
of your presence
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village well
a bulldozer buries
the women's gossip
spring thaw
the river finds
many ways
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mourners
temporarily exit
the cemetery
waiting for the pen
to break the silence
winter night
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disappearing
this troubled world
behind the snowstorm
just how stars
are falling
Okinawa starsand
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grandma’s beach house
her voice curled
in every wave
refilling the shoreline
the dot and dash
of sandpipers
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I don’t get well soon enough autumn
frostbite calling me the ex’s name
these aches and pains gathering storm
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unraveling
the remains of the day
a dragon kite
lemonade stand
the mint flavour
of cicada's cry
old pond
a water strider
drags the sunset
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cutting garden . . .
the bees and I both leave
with lavender-scented hands
double rainbow . . .
fresh handprints appear
low on the window
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quiet morning
the grass stands up
after the military boots
visiting hour
a sparrow peeps
in my hospital room
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monsoon meadow
raindrops on eyelashes
of a cow
denied shelter
the waves bring back
a refugee's body
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into the clear sky
a drop
of blackbird…
autumn equinox
my wanderlust
dappled by age
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I smooth the corners
of a yellowing map:
homes I had, houses I lost ...
muffled cries
a priest's shadow slips
into the grave
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cloud spirit
a charging dragon
falls apart
high plains drifter glacial erratic
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spring peepers peppering the marsh red wings
hot pepper suet –
a red-bellied woodpecker
returns for thirds
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penthouse sky we hope to catch the stars
windy cornfields
the scarecrow’s hat
goes for a spin
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crisp sunrise
the mackerel sky
ripples the morning
cherry petal
sails across the sky
in a puddle
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streets at dawn
undisturbed
birdsong
cranes –
unfulfilled wishes fly
away with them
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November storm
she changes her name
back to her father's
falling leaves
the algorithm shows me
ads for stairlifts
winter wheatfield
the summer scarecrow
replaced by a drone
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loosestrife and ragweed
the summer staggers
into fall
skin forming
on the cream of wheat...
freezing rain
the enso
of a frozen snake
circling hawks
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summertime blues -
fading in the minefield
baby blue eyes
war and peace ...
helicopter seeds take off
in search of home
flickering candles ...
aged soldiers' widows still mourn
the young husbands
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hospice at home –
one more blanket
of warmth
footsteps on gravel –
evening arrives
softly
slow to heal –
the cleaner shrimp
takes its time
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antique window glass
the ripples
of a river willow
enso
the single stroke
of a circling hawk
golf resort…
baby sea turtles
straying off course
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traffic circle
giving way
to blackbird wings
feeling
all over the place
a sea fog
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autumn flush
sipping Darjeeling
aroma first
ripples on stream
my shadow hesitates to
become me
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ghost clouds
acres of western forest
move east
falling star
a pearl soul beneath
the oyster’s tongue
slowly sunlight
bleeds into the day
good Friday
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sunset sail . . .
the smooth glide
of our porch swing
railroad crossing . . .
fifty coal cars
into my wait
starlings at dusk . . .
so many
seeking asylum
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into a camp
not meant for children
sparrow's song
revising
the death poem
dove in the thicket
a red leaf
comes ahead to greet me
autumn's end
whole day's birdsong
but no word of you
crescent moon
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homecoming
the wide open arms
of a scarecrow
beach sand
the line we have drawn
between us
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summer heat-
the seagulls’ wings
move the sky
bench at sunset -
a magpie copies
my silence
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island excursion
a puffin
plucks a feather
first hot spell
the creak
of a trampoline
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the candelabra glow
on an old horse chestnut
last light
all eyes
on the marshmallows
summer moon
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overflowing trash
the comings and goings
of a stray
Voting for Change
maple leaves zigzag
in morning chill
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squid ink pasta
the night train's shadow
unspools the sea
trout lily . . .
a leaf holds a little
of last night's rain
spring ephemerals . . .
trailside feathers
once a dove
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sprawl of barbed wire
the grasshopper sparrow's
scratchy song
turning my face
to soak up the sun
Swainson's hawk soaring
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reaching
through the chain-link fence
one white iris
heavy snow
the porch light left on
for no one
cracked ice
in the birdbath
a bone
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squash flowers
olive-backed sunbird
savoring the nectar
rural health clinic
slicing ripe mangoes
with a scalpel
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end of spring
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sweet sixties
fruit flies circle
my point of view
widowed
a swan released
to the wild
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cloudburst
the aroma of sassafras
steeping in puddles
financial drought
farmland floods—a sea
of wildflowers
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woodsmoke . . .
the afterlife
of ants
a revolving dream
of her returning . . .
the evening tide
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The Himalayas —
we break our silence
in the fireflies' light
temple festival ends . . .
chorus of crickets follow
an elephant's chained walk
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other people’s wars
the old flour mill
grinding on empty
uncharted territory
the empty spaces
you left behind
calm before the storm
lakeside willows
inviting the wind
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meadow rue --
missing the childhood
I never had
refugee moon--
all the places
she calls home
pulling weeds --
another attempt
at rehab
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waking to birdsong
in remission
a blue damselfly
scatters light
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not quite filling
my father’s boots
the poet chooses
the chipped cup
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moonlit beach
the full length
of a fallen spruce
all by itself
a jasmine vine
perfumes the night
pausing inside
the tendril’s curl
a dewdrop
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darkening sky
under the chicken's wing
a white puppy
spring cleaning
in the empty nest
a redback spider
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unfinished novel
the snow that remains
on the mountaintop
hawk feather—
. . . one by one the small
downy ones . . .
layers of loss
after the snowy egret
a cabbage white
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dawn sharpening the magpie’s song
school year book
opening up
old scars
gathering twilight
from interfolded hills
ibis wings
haloed moon the old pony’s blind side
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last days of autumn
looking for wisdom
I follow the snail
cathedral entrance
sparrows
looking for crumbs
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the black-gleamed ravens
in every pore
the ceremonial washing
of the Mikoshi