Category: Birds
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Primary season in the South
South Carolina Spring cable news pundit turtles rise up from pond muck to sit in the sun geese return with loud honking neighbors feed them stale bread telemarketers gather at your feet demand you feed them, too leave greasy goose shit wherever they go 2-15-2024
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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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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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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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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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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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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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haiku lizard
brown anole on brickwinter is coming, go hideit’s not Florida 11-20-23
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