Category: Birds
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Jenny wren
when she was young she asked her husband to build her a tiny Jenny Wren house painted blue as a summer sky a small dowel rod for a front porch hung it in the old apple tree every spring she watched tiny wrens move in once a storm took down the old tree and she…
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haiku lizard
brown anole on brickwinter is coming, go hideit’s not Florida 11-20-23
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Neighborhood sentinel
white crested head blue grey feathered body still as a sentinel guarding the shoreline how do you stand so still out on the highway siren screams emergency get out of the way I’m coming through and still you do not move you step slowly into the water stalk sushi breakfast neck coiled tight snatch life…
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naked selfie
Legacy baby Silver spoon in your mouth Strut long naked legs As if you’re on a celebrity reality show Great Blue Heron What did you do that made you great? 12-2-23
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Cartography of wild geese
morning epigraph: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver ——————————————————– forage among lost souls for sustenance hope, maybe you will stumble upon a way out or maybe quietly follow someone down an overgrown path to an unlocked gate or maybe a bread crumb…
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nothing
nothing comes from emptiness not me, not you not the crow that calls harsh and often not the wind that chills the morning air rustles dry leaves . unwilling to fall everything comes from somewhere else why this is so I don’t know 12-30-23
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haiku for last day of 2023
white egret rises up green hooded drake circles brown mate heron does not flinch 12-31-23
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Light rain
light rain fly-thru breakfast menu white egret stalks the shallows grabs fresh sushi in beak and flies away 1-9-24
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Winter morning haiku
mute black birds shiver mist laden breeze on cat feet softly wets my face 2-5-2024
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