Category: nature
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A Pleasant Thursday Afternoon Reverie
Wouldn’t it be nice if the coming storm began at the west edge of our yard and blew all the tired green leaves it strips from our trees out our yard and into the park for the city to gather and discard and wouldn’t it be nice if Prima Donald resigned and moved to Russia…
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The quietude of wet
3 am, dishes washed clothes in dryer butter in coffee come sit and watch night from my porch smell the wet of moldy leaves damp soil and warm coffee the frost of autumn comes late in the South and that’s okay light rain drips – sparkles in trees asphalt can’t suppress crushed stone’s glisten only…
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Waiting
in the dusk before dawn fog halos street lights water drips from trees two students wait on corner for the school bus to come I wait for a friend to stop by for coffee rain waits for no one 10-29-19
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Bentz’s birthday party
On Bentz’s 66th birthday we stood under umbrellas in the rain black plastic covered music speakers Red Shack Pickers played on a covered stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday no one danced barefoot in the mud but a frog leaped about in wet grass and disappeared under the stage On Bentz’s 66th birthday some gave up…
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The pond
On thousands of sunny days every boy knew there was a monster fish that lived in the bottom of the pond that was the smartest fish that lived in the bottom of the pond that was the luckiest fish that lived in the bottom of the pond that no one ever caught that lived in…
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The sleepy sog of Sunday
Rain came and cooled the woods lone deer stands in your yard, finds nothing and walks down the street oblivious to road etiquette and traffic signs No one plays basketball in the rain dog walkers with rain coats, boots and umbrellas smokers exiled to porches watch the rain pour in sheets from the edge of…
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