Category: travel
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Waking in a strange house
Above my head blue jay searches in roof gutter finds just the right piece and flies away. A deer samples leaves in the underbrush. Distant motorcycle accelerates, shifts gears and is gone. Family wakes on the other side of the door,; soon, I will go inside to sit on the couch until it is time…
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Indiana snow apocalypse haiku
our daughter’s mailbox stands out in the cold alone waits for postman’s visit 2-17-21
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Pandemic vacation dreams of Spain
British folks dream of idyllic summer escapes from the drear of dying England barefoot walks along Costa Del Sol Malaga midnight dinners and dancing You dream of la Caldera de Taburiente at midnight where the din of a raving mad man does not translate the racist haze of burning cities does not scent the air…
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The Iranian
because the wind came always from the west he thought he could smell his future on the wind he left his home moved across the sea went to school, married, had children sought his future in the west it was not waiting in California he moved to China sometimes, he flies east visits family and…
My husband's poetry 