Birds – Page 37 – My husband's poetry

meditation on dying

Aug 24, 2020

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in Aging, Belonging / Loneliness, Birds, Death & Afterlife, insects, night, trees

before the rain before you settle in for the night you walk familiar streets admire mowed lawns limbs trimmed stacked along curbs waiting for the city to haul away _____ sweaty shirt sticks to back and belly trees touch arching green over quiet streets silence thrums just before cicadas roar _____ kudzu pulls roof and…

On hearing of my uncle’s death

Aug 23, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, Death & Afterlife, Family

footprints lead through dust in yard angel print arch trail ends hawk in dead pine ascend unexpectedly upward 8-23-20

nighttime

Aug 4, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, moon, night

in the middle of the night when the moon through the trees striped our yard in shadows I was awaken by a cat and raccoon debating in the neighbor’s yard neither was willing to die over rancid fast food and I went back to sleep 8-4-20

Monday morning tanka

Aug 3, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, haiku, rain, tanka, trees, wind

no rumbling of sky to betray a coming rain nor wet wind warning morning woods are silent, too in the deluge birds call joy 8-3-20

Dusk rain

Jul 29, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, insects, rain, trees

Rain washes air, trees and street Sirens cry in distance Thunder rumbles Cicadas sing No walkers in park Carolina wren chirps Owl and crow are strangely quiet 7-29-20

Birds like sticks of dynamite

Jul 27, 2020

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cfblack

in beach/ocean, Birds, food/cooking

birds like sticks of dynamite circle a ship in the bay while he plants fruit trees amongst gallows on the hill birds return to roost as ship sails north into the sea sweet juice lingers on lips drips upon their chins 7-28-20

A rainy night haiku for our lonely quarantine

Jul 6, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, Belonging / Loneliness, covid, haiku, insects, light, rain

cicadas and rain tree frogs calling back and forth street lights with halos 7-6-20

Glisten

Jul 1, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, beauty, Birds, rain, weather/storms

last night it stormed this morning nothing moves not a leaf or squirrel unseen birds sing water captures light drips from trees 7-1-20

silly haiku Sunday

Jun 28, 2020

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cfblack

in Birds, haiku, humor

our birds sound the same the Sahara Sandcalypse isn’t on their Twitter 6-28-20

Excuse me

Jun 27, 2020

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cfblack

in animals, Birds, daily life, sky/sunrise/sundown, sun

Sun comes softly on overcast morning not quite sure when rotation breaks against horizon spilling light into day Saturday’s dog walkers sleep in city trucks do not circle the park yoga warriors come in fewer numbers But still they come to roll out mats legs, shoulder width apart weight shifting from side to side A…

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