Category: nature
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The leaning tree
You lean ever so slightly towards death Lichen climb your trunk Mushrooms bloom in last year’s leaves Offspring stand tall around you Branches intertwined support you in a wind ___ One night gravity will gather you to itself Neighbors will come stare at your body Marvel at roots grasping air ___ When everyone has gone…
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wet morning haiku
breeze shaken cupped leaves pour last night’s dregs out on ground cabaletta rain 7-19-21
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after last night’s rain
because I was sleeping I do not know if cicadas sang all night they greeted me at dawn as I walked in the park coffee cup in hand the surface of the pond rippled reflected trees long shadows became light insistent life droned sonic Tinder profiles pick me, pick me, pick me 7-17-21
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dancing in shallows
Just above water’s surface Sun flashes blue chrome Damselfly stalks shallows Rests on bare twigs Mates among the weeds growing along the shore Unaware and unable to control Light’s dance upon its armor It remains aloof Purified from my gaze 7-12-21
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Old narcissus
green grass runs to shore stares at its reflection a fish kisses the sky ripples make clouds dance bullfrog belly laughs in reeds I am too tired to walk to the edge and stare 6-27-21
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St. George’s lament
lizard on fence rail dark in long shadows green among the vines did you know my forefathers hid among vines from your forefathers before stars fell from the sky before the burning before the long winter came before the dying before their bones became dragon’s lore 6-26-21
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wet haiku 6-20
wet the leaves and grass wet the patient spores that wait for rain to appear 6-20-21
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