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"she checks short dress
"
long hair in the window: | backhoe driver concentrates |
tails of two balloons?
all they take
with them | sballas |
city lights...
the distance
between us | sballas |
picking sea holly
the sky
just as blue | sballas |
weather girl?
the low front rolling in
matches her outfit | sballas |
spring day...
flowers
i've never seen | sballas |
december sky?
a jay's voice
shrill blue | sballas |
only thing blacker
than raven's wings: eyes dark
enough to steal the sun | sballas |
old rosary
the diary
of her hands | sballas |
going the wrong way
down the street
a mockingbird | sballas |
losing track of place
on patchwork quilt
despite dropped crumbs | sballas |
[insert perceptive
seventeen syllable verse
without humor here] | sballas |
a small hand
reaches for the stars
moon bounce | sballas |
valentine morning
time to release
the lovebirds | sballas |
in an old diary
between pages?
withered rose | sballas |
hospice visit
the daffodil stems
in a clear vase | sballas |
squirrel's delicate
turning of acorn
i almost kiss you | sballas |
waning moon?
"on her mourning dress
" | a white pacifier |
the wet kleenex snow
blob on the sidewalk holds her
entire small handprint | sballas |
still sky
"no birds
no breeze" | morning after the war |
daylilies . . .
my son's face
freckled orange | sballas |
sudden rainstorm
the dog shakes off
each drop | sballas |
white kimono
often confused
with nine hundred count percale | sballas |
earthquake alarm...
trees raise their hands
towards the sky | sballas |
"cubical snug
plays"
"solitaire | eats like you would" |
rocking chair
sits in the attic
counting years | sballas |
deep shadows
i play hide and seek
with the sun | sballas |
pipe leaking
a way to get to know
new neighbors | sballas |
watching a sunset
in black and white
the color-blind man | sballas |
first dew touch?
"shyly
the lily unfolds" | her petals |
she's plucking eyebrows
from the wall mirror like an
escher drawn escher | sballas |
spring breeze
smell of flowers and
starch | sballas |
this longest night?
knitting the baby's blanket
into socks | sballas |
bottoms in the air
a line
of missing ducks | sballas |
half moon?
dog's bark above
the factory noise | sballas |
what wind finds you here
"begging shadows
coins tapping" | songs for an alley |
growing sideways
in the deep forest?
a single birch | sballas |
"skeletons of the aspen
"
snowflakes dance | the winter away. |
sipping green tea
from a styrofoam cup...
stomach in knots | sballas |
"the blue-eyed cat
gone"
was it coyotes | or that flock of big ravens? |
freeing the ego
doesn't mean abandoning
your love of peaches | sballas |
clank of iron?
two butterflies ascend
in their mating dance | sballas |
black cars drive themselves
"suits
wind flutters pages | me" |
"curls of smoke
"
rise from my coffeepot. | the soft patter of rain. |
drifting
with the snow
a plastic bag | sballas |
a silver scimitar
new moon slices
night blue sky | sballas |
"rabbits at market
"
their furs pulled off like mittens? | "shiny |
little windfall apples?
cartoon cherry bombs
that went pffft | sballas |
frost on morning glass
"winter's gentle face
voices" | whisper through windows |
on both sides
of the cemetery fence
wild flowers | sballas |
"and there lies the ocean
"
"so grey and deep | " |
i fill the feeder
chickadee sings
we are grateful | sballas |
the dust of two towers
is slowly obscured by smoke
from a thousand towns. | sballas |
prickly pear?
"hidden in golden grass
" | still green and holding |
a sunflower field
millions of tiny faces
smiling in daylight | sballas |
"a soft whisper of breeze
"
"dandelions gently sway | " |
small bird
on a cattail
not singing | sballas |
night walk full moon
steel rails gleam
to vanishing point | sballas |
"over the hayfields
"
"a barn owl floats | searching." |
between the trees
swoop of coloured wing and feather
and hammock song of summer | sballas |
his face
next to mine?
whiskers | sballas |
purple scented air
hovering over the lilacs
transient moment | sballas |
"dear c.
?i think i"
needed your strength???to get here | sorry i can't stay |
goodbye hug
the blue of the
forget me nots | sballas |
clay on the wheel
deep breath
reaching for the centre | sballas |
budding romance...
between them on the porch swing
a just opening rose | sballas |
an hour's walk
and getting nowhere?
the treadmill | sballas |
skin against my palm
you trace translucent road maps
"read | cartographer" |
"
your flesh a fever"
limning me??in this way | i??lay hold upon??i |
he shows me his tattoo?
the tree shadow
on the sidewalk | sballas |
strong breeze
clouds sweep by
the top of the tree | sballas |
curling up
when problems arise
armadillo | sballas |
spring recital?
mozart on the piano keys
bird warbles at the window | sballas |
left in the closet
"an umbrella
forgotten" | rain cloud emptying |
the sweat dripping drip-
ping into your eyes like tears
for all my efforts | sballas |
sleeping in?
his side of the bed
still warm | sballas |
roots of the dead spruce
reach out bony fingers
secret life exposed | sballas |
spring break
crocus pokes its head
through the melting of march | sballas |
radiant heater
a cat by the window
purrs | sballas |
echoes of sunset
your upturned face a canvas?
splashed watercolor | sballas |
exchange
of wedding vows?
the incoming tide | sballas |
from tree-shadow to
"lighted pools
startled koi: paint-" | brush lines on water. |
we will miss you -
"farewell
mr. vonnegut." | i laughed; wept |
bowl of tomatoes
first hint of ripening
early dawn glow | sballas |
glasses on table -
"grandpa passed in june
" | only two months away |
smile amphibian
servile fly crowning frog prince
order among thieves | sballas |
plane ticket to france
"like a ""fuck thou"" ode to you"
if i had the balls | sballas |
coarse white pubic hair
sign of fleeting time old age
now at the ready | sballas |
bursts over belt loops
designer brand across her ass
"""guess"" what?... your weight?" | sballas |
"to touch
be touched"
is everything worth wanting | "yes |
"mountains
but not stone?"
white sculptures too pure for hands. | i break like a wave. |
a photo is all
we have of our rendezvous
between here and there. | sballas |
snow on the ground
streetlamps are on
at four o'clock | sballas |
"still
white cityscape"
belies fury of last night's | edmonton blizzard |
luminescent lures
draw them close to its dark mouth
the nightclub swallows | sballas |
lightning eyes flashing
and your face darkens and clouds
thunder comes after | sballas |
"quick steps on hard wood
"
"a racing heart / shadow hips | " |
winter is a birth
of lofty expectations
for the next season. | sballas |
elton john sings
a texas love song as
first snow falls | sballas |
"time flows freely
like"
"water in a river | no" |
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