Category: Spring
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Calico mosquito
Cat sits in sun by empty fire pit wearing a grey and white patched coat watching squirrels watch her watch them watching her stare as if in aligned mirrors. The squirrels know she knows she cannot reach them, but she tries again and again and again, because maybe just maybe she might get lucky. April…
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Birthdays
The last day of winter sits forlorn Next to first day of spring On our kitchen wall Only twenty four hours older But no one celebrates its coming They aren’t that much different And some years Winter looks better than spring 7-24-22
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Along the fence line
On a winter day I asked the bare bush that invades the fence line near water’s edge about spring and the bright green anoles that chase along the rail and flush their necks coral pink hoping nubile anoles might see. It replied, “Soon, old man, soon” 1-19-23
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John Dillinger visits South Carolina
Flowering bush bleeds red on brown leaves moss paints asphalt green bright morning before rain Spring does not wait for Equinox to turn the key 2-10-23
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Spring haiku
grooving in sunshine on the ground and in the trees light and shadow dance 4-14-25
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Concerto in the Key of Aqueous
gentle rain thunder rolls overhead water laughs in drain pipes liquid syncopated rhythm in trees birds sing hallelujah songs sirens wail in the distance yellow school bus rattles to a stop latchkey children splash home in the rain I sit on our porch waiting for a key signature change 4-24-25
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3 haikus for Spring’s first bumble bee
levitates nearby Charles Barkley of insects how’s that damn thing fly? yellow/black fuzz ball respect given – not taken miracle of flight Tinker Bell ain’t real do not f*** with me and I will not f*** with you 3-3-23
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Carolina Spring tanka
squinting in bright warm sunlight, bright pink azalea, horny green lizard on fence, yellow pollen slime on pond. 3-4-23
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Waiting for rain
waiting for rain azaleas burst bright pink blossoms on green foliage 3-17-23
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