Category: animals
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The Jabbering of a California Ground Squirrel’ or ‘Saving Devin from himself’
Fearing every shadow that drifts over grass fearing the blue sky above a green canopy he jabbers that talons hide in silence and that every bird could be a raptor As a red hawk feasts on his brothers, he believes his salvation lies in blood sacrifice to an apparition that waits in a barren tree…
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11/11 – Dream π r²
You cross bridge after bridge go from island to island looking for the friend You sit in cafes walk neighborhoods hang out on park benches You stroll through galleries listening for the rhythm of the artist’s heart Once, you thought you saw the back of their head but you lost them in a crowd Like…
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The quietude of wet
3 am, dishes washed clothes in dryer butter in coffee come sit and watch night from my porch smell the wet of moldy leaves damp soil and warm coffee the frost of autumn comes late in the South and that’s okay light rain drips – sparkles in trees asphalt can’t suppress crushed stone’s glisten only…
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Sermon of squirrels
Yesterday all the rats in fur coats jumped down from the trees sang hosanna and fled our yard Salivating in search of a miracle they stopped at Benedict College to attend the Traveling Nut Salvation Show 10-26-19
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The sleepy sog of Sunday
Rain came and cooled the woods lone deer stands in your yard, finds nothing and walks down the street oblivious to road etiquette and traffic signs No one plays basketball in the rain dog walkers with rain coats, boots and umbrellas smokers exiled to porches watch the rain pour in sheets from the edge of…
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