Category: nature
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Afternoon rain
Afternoon rain I dreamed of uprooted trees drifting like dirigibles across the sky birds fly in and out of leaves. After the rain I walked in the park the moss is bright green only birds and a lone cicada sang. 7-13-25
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Elegy for a cockroach
A cockroach lies dead behind my chair on the porch. I do not mourn its passing. It is one of those large ones that reside in the South among dead leaves under the bark of trees, on your porch. They do not respect privacy or care for cleanliness. If they can cohabitate and live with…
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Summer rain
in fading light on our front porch sit…read Thomas Hardy’s poems while rain drums tympany on the roof of my regrets 7-11-25
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How to eat a peach
visualize golden pollen transferred on legs of bees, pregnant blossoms drenched in rain bite the skin, chew the pulp, suck flesh from wrinkled pit, let its juice dribble down your chin lick your fingers, toss the seed along the fence line hoping it will grow 7-7-25
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sunset
When the birds call down the sun and shadows darken in the woods, when sunlight kisses the tops of trees goodnight and cicadas begin their droning, mosquitos come to suck my blood and I must go inside. 7-5-25
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Beach trip, May 2025
Eons ago, we traded wings for speech and legs to run and now we spend eternity regretting our choice. ____ On our last trip to the beach pelicans flew single file off shore. Seagulls hung in the air waiting for food to drop; shiny grackles brazenly stole food from wagon stashes of tourists. An attractive…
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Cattail tales
dragonfly swoops gathers mosquitos in its maw other mosquitos oblivious death passed them by 7-3-25
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summer solstice haiku
on the longest day, off the well-worn path, beauty blooms among the weeds 6-20-25
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dawn haiku
long shadow morning early bird gets the cool breeze locust drone in trees 6-18-25
