Category: nature
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living in 4/4 time
All night it rained/Morning smelled fresh/Glistened on green Tacit Wind walks through trees/Shakes water loose/Patters on leaves 8-20-20
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Listening to Thunder as Rain Passes By
at the edge of thirst flowers and trees wait for rain beg to bathe dust from limbs grit from hair rain cares not about desire need or love 8-15-20
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Pleiades rejoice
the heavens were hooded last night the Perseid meteor shower hid from view a slice of the moon played peek-a-boo with clouds, I asked questions of myths and constellations, mused that if Orion carried an EpiPen and didn’t die from a scorpion’s sting and had erectile dysfunction and every mythic star knew the Pleiades wouldn’t…
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H20
Three atom molecule too little, you die too much, you drown It falls, rises, spins and uproots flows, runs, drifts, ebbs with the tide fills beds of streams, rivers, lakes and sea it carries mountains on its back Universal solvent matrix of life without it we are dust 8-12-20
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summer haiku
summer’s searing sunwindless woods of shadow greenmyrtle wearing pink 8-10-20
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Summertime
Before air conditioning was a thing all doors and windows were open In the hall a box fan stirred the air moved it to the kitchen for supper Pulled weeds, hoed the garden picked worms from off the vines Rode bikes, played in the sprinkler sat in the front yard after dark Drank nickel root…
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an anniversary meditation
dust motes shimmer through trees on sunbeams I sip coffee and read Hibakusha stories trees shake from an earthquake in the mountains I haven’t heard damage reports, but it will be mild _____ on the anniversary of Nagasaki I reflect 70,000 vaporized in a rush for peace children, mothers, fathers a Shinto shrine and Catholic…
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