Category: daily life
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No sleep
Doze on the porch Doze in a chair Doze on a couch Doze in your office Doze in the park Doze in sweat pants Doze in underwear Your wife saw a spider Crawl across your bed 6-30-20
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Excuse me
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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Choices
Morning after fire pit grey ash stills radIates heat Lone tree frog drones in woods Leaves glisten with yesterday’s rain Cardinal calls from a limb Young woman pushes stroller in park Yoga instructor’s leaf blower removes debris from basketball court Bose beats boom before breakfast Neighbor walks dog without doggie waste bag So many omens…
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stairs
Some days are made for repairing stairs Some days are made for building stairs up to the porch Some days are made for climbing stairs that lead to your door Some days are made for sitting on stairs to watch your neighbors pass by Some days are made for descending stairs for a stroll in…
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Practice in a time of safe distancing
He sits alone at a blue picnic table laces name brand shoes from rough asphalt he removes last night’s leaves and debris gathers his brown ball and shoots from the top of the key ___ He rebounds shoots a layup retreats to the far side of the court fakes left and right shoots a three…
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The news from my porch
Last night it rained This morning dirt and debris is arranged in serried rows along the curb Today I will sweep it all into piles for the city to haul away Tomorrow 6-10-20
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I need a city job
This morning, the humidity is oppressive soon the sky will crack open and storms reveal leaks the sun obscures A park employee on a mower races the storm no time to get off and remove debris shattering sticks, head down as he slays grass Wherever you find a park employee working there are two higher…
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haiku for Sunday’s ambient music soundtrack
dog barks, chainsaw whines basketballs thump, mower drones birds call back and forth 6-7-20
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Vignettes from Friday’s fire pit
Junk mail and old receipts make good kindling From the end of a rotted log a beetle crawls out Stands on a brick and races off before it gets too hot On its way to the park a calico with a belled collar walks quietly through your yard A woman walks by on the street…
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