Category: nature
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Pressed Against Glass
The enslavement of highly sentient beings for amusement in zoos and aquariums and calling it research haunts me. This is a sonnet for beluga whales. =================================== In crystalline depths, where whispers abide, A sentient spirit, in ocean’s embrace, A white beluga, in currents does glide, Captured, displayed in a confined space. Majestic prisoner of watery…
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Reverence for the dead
whale fall funeral bed repose of the decomposed nothing goes to waste bones picked clean piled on ocean floor
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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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Dopplar reading in tercets
storms are in the forecast, crowding my news feed, lurking on the radar do deer know to hunker down, the squirrels to snuggle up, and birds to go to ground we will stay in our house, sitting on the couch, clicker in hand, hoping the internet does not go out 1-12-24
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haiku rain
rainy winter’s day sullied pond, full to the brim light rain tumbles down 1-24-24
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haiku detris
among wet brown leaves spiny seed pods lie awake for a chance to grow 1-25-24
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dusk halos
dusk halos light on the pole on water all day threatened rain static grey clouds rumble – soon the night sky may break thunder and light crack the dark I will go inside and listen to it rain 1-27-24
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color of the moon
the moon is not made of green cheese maybe brie, gouda, provolone or mild cheddar but green is not the color of the moon. 9-26-24
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Asheville
water leaves muddy foot prints in the top most boughs of trees tomorrow tragedies will reveal themselves in debris fields of mountain streams splintered makeshift crucifixes festooned with corpses years of recovery and sunshine cannot resurrect 9-29-24
My husband's poetry 