Category: Birds
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Pandemic coffee in a blue cup
A mute yellow sign stands near the street in a neighbor’s yard signaling SLOW in black letters. You sip coffee from a blue cup as friends drive by and wave on their way to work, the grocery or anywhere, but here. The old couple with a corgi, call good morning from the park. With only…
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Gray hat
Dear Mom, today is cold. I stand in the chill where the sun breaks through trees to sip coffee. Most mornings, I throw a handful of keto granola for a brave mockingbird that busily gathers it up next to me. It reminds me of you and how you always bustled about your kitchen. A brown…
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Dream Sonnet with Invisible Beats
(if you are a form purist, read slowly and add invisible beats in your head) 4 am foggy, storm chases street light halos, uproots forest. Trees, like celery stalks drift slowly overhead, roots dancing free. Daylight comes, two mockingbirds pirouette among pansies, rise up on porch rail, fanned tail and wings show bands of bright…
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Roots
You rise You stretch You exercise You sip coffee in the park You talk with dog walkers You dig roots in your yard You talk with a sister about health and family You set down the shovel You sit on the porch and rest, because roots exhaust you 11-23-20
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Dog day Saturday
man with blind dog walks slow enjoys last times together blonde nurse walks black dog every morning her husband walks at noon two doors down lonely dog barks in back yard brown dog at corner fence complains to anything that moves Boston terrier and pit bull mix pull their human along as he talks on…
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three haikus celebrating autumn in the city
here and there a tree showed red; leaves lost grip and fell rattled on way down in tops of park pines noisy grackles host rallies protest autumn’s change bring rakes and blowers we will watch fresh mulch decay noisy flockers flee 11-8-20
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