Category: animals
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Calico mosquito
Cat sits in sun by empty fire pit wearing a grey and white patched coat watching squirrels watch her watch them watching her stare as if in aligned mirrors. The squirrels know she knows she cannot reach them, but she tries again and again and again, because maybe just maybe she might get lucky. April…
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H.O.R.S.E.
Who decided to spell H.O.R.S.E. that this was the way to see who was the best shot in the neighborhood? Today, I watched young kids play H.O.R.S.E. and doubt they ever rode a horse at summer camp or enjoyed Roy Rogers on TV Shoot to disarm and never to kill dreamed of crying High Oh…
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Spring haiku
tree frogs sing off stage squirrels pole dance in side yard blue jays rage in bush 4-30-22
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When shadows block the sun
If I cast my shadow behind me at the pond, turtles do not jump from bank to water. In our yard, I sit in a faded yellow chair my wife wants me to throw away. I don’t care what the neighbors think; why replace what conforms comfortably to my form? I go inside to pee,…
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Beachboys on the half shell
turtles on the bank baking in the warm spring sun preparing to flee 4-22-22
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4am porch haiku
rain rattles drain pipe caterwauling hormone rage needs to find a room 4-7-22
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Fecundity
after the storm broken tree leans near path amphibian drone three tone bull frog bass line a pair of mallards, a pair of geese cordon off the pond half grown leaves blossom bright green dogwood crowns edge of woods beneath my feet revelation moss effloresces birds call back and forth I am alive, I am…
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turtle haiku 2022
turtle on a logcontemplating the morningpoised to flee away 2-24-22
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Life unseen
spawning bottom feeders dance mud swirls on surface of pond, whoo-ing owl asks questions of the woods, leaf blower drones two blocks away, car doors slam, dogs bark close and far, trucks groan on distant interstate, birds query from bush to bush, fighter jets roar in overcast sky, sirens cry on ferry road, yellow dust…
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