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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