Category: noise
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window rattling
fighter jets race low crack sky shake house gone before sound freedom is not quiet 5-2-21
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midnight haiku
furnace hums mantra type of noise…..not lack of noise resonates silence 2-13-21
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Bird watching during an election year
A family of Cyanocitta cristata race back and forth in trees Shrieking and screeching again and again I look for an egg-sucking snake or maybe a crow But I see no egg-suckers in trees disturbing the peace Maybe the mocking birds were spreading conspiracy theories for kicks Or maybe the insecure and unstable just don’t…
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In the quiet
In the quiet, before the birds sing before she moves from her curved space in our bed Before cars come alive before the guy who talks to a voice in his ear buds walks by I fortify myself with coffee attempt to assume a prayerful attitude and count my blessings Before the dog one block…
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In Greening Wood
03/24 “One plods along in a state of amazement, sometimes smiling sometimes weeping.” Farid al-Din Attar from his poem ‘The Conference of Birds’ crows return from winter retreat robins strut on sandy ground pear tree hosts a cabaret of wrens jays and cardinals flash blue and red mockingbirds court along a fence woodpecker stalks a…
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