Category: nature
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excuses are for the weak
rainy mornings I’d stop and save the worms drowning on puddled sidewalks picked them up threw them in the grass check marks on my report card told my parents I was late they would not understand saving drowning worms so I took my punishment and moved on 5-5-24
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review of new recruits
this morning resident geese paraded six goslings in single file a band of frogs on mud banks played poor covers of John Philip Sousa I paid attention to their passing while deep in green undergrowth birds wouldn’t stop talking 5-6-24
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still life
in a pretty vase waist deep in tap water trying not to die beauty caught in full-bloom strikes an objectified pose the compost pile is calling 5-7-24
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shadow play
From my seat in the shade I watch a leafy shadow sway Back and forth in a patch of light It wavers high overhead Oblivious to it’s shadow dance And oblivious of me 5-16-24
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rain drips from trees drums dry brown leaves snare rattles downspouts birds sing call and response highway drones bass line sit silent and listen 5-19-24
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recycling day
Sit in a lawn chair read Keats wait for the city truck to haul away trash we call recycling. Plaintive bird calls three times from the bush. No reply. 5-20-24
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yellow haiku
swaying in the breeze dandelion on spindly stem dancing at my feet 5-20-24
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afternoon haiku
bright sun climbs tree trunk shadows crawl across the ground going nowhere fast 5-22-24
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Haiku backyard brunch
Aesop’s crow squabbles on fence with cooped up chickens about table scraps 5-24-24
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