Category: nature
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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
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haiku of the pond
damsel and dragon skim the surface looking for mosquitoes to eat 6-16-25
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Fresh cut flowers
Bouquets of roses Fresh cut Look alive But are dead Sit on tables In pretty vases Wait for The compost pile Admired By the living A funeral parlor’s Sweet fragrance 6-2-25
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haiku rinse
moss glows fertile green birds sing the morning awake woods drip last night’s rain 5-30-25
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