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DAY’S END
Sudden rush of feathers draughting the air above me small flocks of careening birds fly low over the meadow chased by strong tail winds a dozen at a time joining the twisting, turning mass flowing...
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Small Gift
One small gift from the universe an unintended consequence benefiting the giver, taker one momentary thread of spider web light suspending judgment, exhaling in one single tonal breath body heat, one...
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How much light in a winter sky
How much light in a winter sky! the subtlety of mauve and rust and slate heavy-bellied clouds floating like seasoned bathers in a cold sea each dwindling moment of olive oil light caught in the wick...
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RECLAIM
. . . and then I returned to the comforting leak of the pantry light across the kitchen floor reclaiming the hearth the carved out space to creep beneath, inhabit the familiar echo off the walls a...
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Hopeful
Hopeful bench sitting by an expanse of ice waiting for the thaw Happy Valentines Day and love to all in my life.
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Bear
Bear belly crawls out of her den limbs heavy with winter lassitude paws her way up through rootball, fieldstone, clay two wide-eyed young nudge her flanks: this bright new world is safe? She noses the...
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Wonder Valley
The cottage pulls itself apart at the joints in the heat of the day settles back into itself at night high desert wind clatters in the fan palms fine dust coats the mirrors In the yard husks of coyote...
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Cardinal Sin
Dear Cardinal, I am so sorry the cat who we keep as a pet ate your partner. You advertise for a mate all over again from the top of the forsythia. Is it my guilt that detects a sad note, or does that...
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Narrative for a May Morning
Mist lying in the deep valleys, sunrise on white windmills, fresh cool air blowing down from Canada after the rain. Heard the mate-seeking brag of the rufous sided towhee before I spotted him posing...
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Presence
The year has rocked this world to its roots. What if for one day each being put down their burdens, their words of hate, their inhumanity and breathed in the presence? Stopped fighting for history,...
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