Category: sky/sunrise/sundown
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Impatience
Birds beg predawn dark to leave Earth’s rotation makes you dizzy and wish you could stop spinning You take a barelegged walk through moonlit field sting of nettles follows you home Aloe Vera lotion can’t absolve the sins of impatience next time, you will wait for light 6-24-20
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Blue heron
It saw me first coming around the bend stepping on the wooden bridge I heard it rise out of reeds watched long legs fold up like landing gear soar low over water Gather speed cresting pines blue gray wings against a gray blue sky 6-12-20
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walk in the woods on a sunny morning
what is this science this magic that breaks rocks for food pulls water into thin air gathers light from sky hides a beetle from a bird that leaps from a branch soars towards the sun 4-15-20
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Spring
white lilies yellow flowers violets in the shade wisteria green grass azaleas along a fence black crow Carolina wren hawk circles in a blue sky 3-26-20
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shooting star
night sky scratch of light hole torn in dark fabric let’s escape before the wound heals 2-15-20
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Theo Meteoroi
You stared out into night skies and could not find the lion or swan the eagle or ram, Orion or the bear You wanted to believe – you wanted to see the magic you thought maybe you were blind or maybe you were not spiritual enough You argued with the Theoi Meteoroi and questioned who…
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