Category: Winter/ Cold
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a tanka for the sun
I do not know where birds hide on cold, rainy days today, they woke me calling to one another “Ollie, Ollie outs in-free” 2-1-20
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If
On cold winter days mom would send you out to play you would watch the birds shiver on phone lines and thought maybe they gathered local gossip through their feet Hardly anyone has a landline anymore birds now shiver on cable TV lines you wonder if they prefer ESPN the Cartoon Network or cable news…
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a walk in the woods
winter warm and wet moss on bare ground soft and alive a wild thing long asleep waited for the right time the right sunlight temperature and rain bend down pet it tomorrow it will leave and not return for years ‘ 1-16-20
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haiku chill
cloud filtered sunlightrivulets meander through treesrainy morning chill 12-13-19 *Title from wife…
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Taste Air
this morning clouds fled unfiltered light returned _____ tired trees ready for rest snuggle blankets gold and yellow _____ in green aprons others work cook sap of carbon and light _____ waiting for winter solstice to swaddle rags of bright gasp…..taste air and leap into light _____ when my season comes into unfiltered light I…
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sleeping in a strange bed
Sleeping in a strange bed your back talked to you all night You got up early tried to decide if you wanted coffee Outside it’s 30 degrees you tell yourself today should be canceled until tomorrow 11-10-19
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Cold November School Days
1950’s cold rainy days days of buttered toast hot oatmeal breakfasts three spoons of sugar four, if mom wasn’t looking Days of flannel shirts and sweaters mittens tied with a string run through the sleeves of your coat yellow raincoat with a snap on hood Black galoshes pulled over shoes rows of shiny bend over…
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