Category: animals
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Style trends of a modern squirrel
White socked squirrel Did you dress in the dark this morning Grab three brown socks and one white Doesn’t your mother check you Before you leave the hutch? Chewing on a nut You sit on the fence rail Stare back in studied nonchalance Is this a fashion statement, A rebellion or do you even care?…
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Quatrains at 55 degrees
Cool, windless dawn Mist hovers over pond unwilling to leave Fish rise, kiss the bottom of sky Puckered ripples replicate to nothingness Cardinals call back and forth Squirrels churl and chase overhead Anoles and frogs are hunkered down Insects await the sun to speak I return to our yard with empty cup Sovereign lord of…
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The story John and Paul never sang about Rocky
During mating season A nine ringed tailed male raccoon Does not stop to count the rings On an eight ringed tailed female 8-19-21
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Of squirrels and cats
plump feral cat lounges in yard squirrels are wary but unafraid hunger makes a hunter fast please, don’t feed our feral cats 8-7-21
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Tuesday’s haiku
morning enchantment turtle head glides through water its wake glinting light 7-20-21
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poem for the moon man
Woodpecker drumming Like woodpeckers do Dog walkers walk Alone in the park Heron in shallows Green lizard on fence Coffee cup empty Meander on home 7-15-21
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a la carte
In the pine that leans over water’s edge grey blue heron spreads wings; a huge leaf that drifts to ground near shore. Preens feathers coils neck and reads the menu. A quarter way around the table it becomes shoreline. Legs move silent body leans coiled neck recalibrates. SNAP! Head plunges wings spread brown frog in…
