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high above the end of this long day sliver of moon
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sunday morning a neighbor comes out to clap his shoes
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floating through my thought butterfly
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rose trellis a butterfly adjusts its flight
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garden swing? cat and butterfly in mid-air
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three fiddlers? a dog weaves between pints of stout
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she speaks softly she speaks of daffodils i write it down
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bumblebee the buzz between flowers
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a child's laughter the touch of a touch-me-not
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cool summer morning i take my thoughts out to the porch
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lightning flash how short the stubble
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cloudcast afternoon? corn popping on the stove
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an old man's breathing barely moves the newspaper winter dusk
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winter stars? shaking rust down from the old swing set
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grand canal row on row of gondolas tossing at their stakes
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crochet hook pulling the yarn through deep november
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porch sitting? the scallop of snowy hills in his gesture
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bright venus two hawks settle deep in the pine
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approaching storm a peacock's cry above the wind
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tattered windsock? a harbor seal slips between two dinghies
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pond shimmer there not there grebes
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early spring the honey pot nearly empty
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goose crossing the old pick-up's broken horn
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valley stillness?? a butterfly passes through an empty log
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fading stars a hedgehog haphazards its way back home
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filtered sunlight where the forest thins daffodils
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her gray hair gone blonde?? first day of spring
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fiddlehead fern the way it rolls off the tongue
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sunset flash of starlings in the acacia
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day lilies waking to find it wasn?t a dream
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a grain of rice on the mayor's face . . . new year's levee
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winter chill turkey vultures circling one of their own
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long train the roundness of snow on tanker cars
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winter tulips squeaking as they enter the vase
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rabbits at dusk as if foxes did not also love twilight
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january?? the gym crowded with resolutions
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forecasted storm . . . the low-battery in my kindle
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hunger moon the sound of squirrel teeth on a hazelnut
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winter mist at the stoplight pink sneakers keep running
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lent is over a bartender flips the coaster
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my housefly's autumn the window with the hills of apple trees
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moonlit waves the glow of streetlights on clapboard cottages
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snow in the forecast?? some extra spice in the jambalya
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12.01 am flying a drunkard's path the year's first moth
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snow erasing the garden's features?? teaching my dad to shave
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unilingual i study the expressions in a wren's eye
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first cold day the cat kneads a patch of sunlight
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first flakes discovering my childhood in a box
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orion's belt my words byte by byte to another continent
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after the funeral snow covers the dark places
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rustle of palm leaves . . . fishermen play cards in the boat's shade
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roadside walk a beggar stretches leg as hand
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fiddlers? festival the bull frogs? uneven harmony
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alone with dad's old songs another night of fireflies
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adonis blue . . . searching in vain among the heathcliffs
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summer afternoon?? the saxophone busker takes a drag
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tornado watch cricket songs carried from tall grass
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gypsy violin . . . the wheat harvest sparkling with fireflies
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mountain pass wind whistles through my pack frame?? a pika answers
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crescent moon quiet lullaby from the rocker
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first flakes the nowhere voices of geese
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the snow follows grace stone soup
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first in the last trash bag?? the box it came in
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winter frost?? the sword's sharp shine out of the sheath
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a rose petal in the singing bowl . . . first blackbird
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all saints? day dusk: a blackbird's alarm call sets off another
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folding the map part of the country ends in the ocean
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new year's day the cloud that held the mountain lets go
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winter thaw tasting spiced cider on my lover's tongue
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bare trees a request for an update of my bio
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glare ice the old dog pees on the moon
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sun-bright morning dragons of factory smoke dissolved by wind
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after all the things that have gone wrong?? plum blossoms
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i find myself losing the trail . . . greening woods
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spring cleaning?? my daughter finds the key to the music box
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wind blown snow a ewe's cry in the night
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mild winter the shore ice releases its litter
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measuring a life from crocus to crocus
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songbirds returning . . . the tunes my father would whistle
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trail frog the children jump back
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early spring . . . specks from the sky settle near the river
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the robin's song garlic shoots lift the soil
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daylight saving the neighbor's pregnancy begins to show
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butterbur the rabbits explore a little further
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stuffed in a bus the scent of spring in a woman's musk
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inside the bud all the reasons to believe
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the swell before the river splits into another name
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from the far bank the two-note squeaks of coot chicks strobe the river
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outdoor wall banyan shoot curls in my shadow
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in the stream a lone fisherman that once was me
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stargazer lily . . . a dab of pollen on the tip of her nose
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primrose?? a new nurse hired in the playhouse
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sweetfish fall downstream how easily i slip into yesterday
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our legs stir up phosphorescence the heat
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clouds drift . . . the trail of a rain drop on a dirt covered leaf
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butterfly the thought of myself not thinking
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yard sale?? listening to sunsets in the conch shell
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slow current . . . the rusting shadow of a truss bridge
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peaceful evening the drip of oars at rest
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dusk . . . the home plate umpire brushes it off again
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