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over old ground . . .
a dunnock's search
in winter shrubs | sballas |
low tide
gull and gannet shadows
pick shells | sballas |
spring peepers
raindrops stipple the creek
in chorus | sballas |
cherry buds
so much effort
to be nice | sballas |
prom day??
on my daughter's waist
a boy's hand | sballas |
village in the mountains . . .
a stray dog becomes
our trek guide | sballas |
baptism song
a turtle slips
into the river | sballas |
yard sale
a family portrait
bought for its frame | sballas |
just how
to hold you
paper kite | sballas |
willow
the limits
of happiness | sballas |
towing
a rainbow
baby duck | sballas |
pool filter
a child's collection
of dandelion wishes | sballas |
beach cottage
the musty smell
of old novels | sballas |
cradling her belly??
waiting for someone who
is already here | sballas |
autumn??
i count once again
tulip bulbs in the bag | sballas |
the bus is late . . .
across the twilight river
the wheeling starlings | sballas |
another morning
of mares tails
the wisp of a sigh | sballas |
different carols
two drifters singing
for spare change | sballas |
indian summer
the soccer net ripples
with a goal | sballas |
remembering to let them
speak first
cosmos in the rain | sballas |
change of seasons
i catch myself talking
to the wind | sballas |
waiting room
someone whispers
?be morning soon? | sballas |
an inchworm
grasping thin air
christmas morning | sballas |
the old moon
everyone else
i?ve outlived | sballas |
back to school
unlearning
the whole summer | sballas |
the way
it feels to hold you
gibbous moon | sballas |
still reflecting
upon creation
dragonfly eye | sballas |
manna gumtrees
the sugar glider's belly
before the moon | sballas |
chalk line
the screech
of infinity | sballas |
schoolyard fence??
when did i end up
on this side? | sballas |
a berry's curve
in a crow's beak
harvest moon | sballas |
autumn sky
the paint worn thin
around the birdhouse door | sballas |
watching the deer
watch my morning train
pass by | sballas |
faces put on
at the family gathering??
watermelon rinds | sballas |
pasture tree
its shade
shapes the herd | sballas |
lonely is a place
inside
the call of a loon | sballas |
bomb shelter??
my old belongings
huddle in the dark | sballas |
night sky
our long look at
the past | sballas |
sunrise
the full arc
of sprinklers | sballas |
foxglove
a hummingbird adjusts
the breeze | sballas |
concrete??
the jungle
within me | sballas |
cold overnight
no way of knowing
where the loon will surface | sballas |
the night's crickets
never silent
never seen | sballas |
adjoining properties??
the cut
of the mower blade | sballas |
afternoon tea
my mother
speaks her history | sballas |
white butterfly
i?m also ready
to surrender | sballas |
hayshed
the old iron roof
straining daylight | sballas |
telephoto lens
the loon's call
comes into focus | sballas |
summer commute
again a truckload
of crushed cars | sballas |
trail signs??
pausing
to find myself | sballas |
her eyes
say yes
fireflies | sballas |
reflecting pool . . .
she tosses coins in
without looking | sballas |
lake of stars
the taste
of polaris | sballas |
spring
whistling through
a blade of grass | sballas |
mild weather
their argument continues
outside | sballas |
war veteran . . .
lobbing grain
at his hens | sballas |
blue rain
a kayak frozen
in the slipstream | sballas |
pool drain
the frogs
i couldn?t save | sballas |
town gossip??
a rototiller's blade
turning up stones | sballas |
army hospital
he finger-spells
i love you | sballas |
buttercup meadow
a blackbird rises
at the twig's snap | sballas |
recession??
poke salad growing
in a sidewalk crack | sballas |
remembering . . .
a maya's feather
in dawn light | sballas |
the almost
of crabapple buds
hazy sky | sballas |
i will not leave??
apple blossoms collect
on my shoulders | sballas |
incense for remembrance
water trickles down
the mountain side | sballas |
matching exhales
with the sleeping dog . . .
bone coloured mist | sballas |
soapsuds??
mother tells me how
she?d like to die | sballas |
construction site
yellow ribbons
outline the future | sballas |
puddle
in the umbrella
morning sun | sballas |
childless
i measure time
by how the willow grows | sballas |
easter fog lifting
a blowfly rises
from roadkill | sballas |
cemetery bees
her last diploma
made of marble | sballas |
you are here
the crisscross
of snow flurries | sballas |
newly-fallen snow
the warmth
in a hare's paw | sballas |
shortest day of the year
a peculiar voice
from each appliance | sballas |
her last words
snow falling
on beech leaves | sballas |
thirty below zero
losing my faith
in turtles | sballas |
morning moon
a peregrine
begins its dive | sballas |
mouse
the sound
is enough | sballas |
soft moonlight
a second owl
answers | sballas |
wings of grass
what remains
of her snow angel | sballas |
streaming towards
the winter sunset
crematorium smoke | sballas |
closing time
winter dusk slides down
the book drop | sballas |
summer
the sound of rain
on canvas | sballas |
moonlit
the pure white life
of the lily | sballas |
dog days
the damp dishcloth
begins to smell | sballas |
empty fairgrounds??
tent peg holes
half filled | sballas |
the last light
in the hollers
of children | sballas |
heat lightning
for all the right reasons
we wait | sballas |
distant lightning
a blackbird tears flesh
from a ripe cherry | sballas |
milkweed drift
i take my chair outside
to wait | sballas |
i lift her
she lifts me
the four-year-old | sballas |
overcast morning . . .
a yellow warbler
tests each branch | sballas |
imagining
i?ve learned to dance??
first quince blossoms | sballas |
more thunder
ants do ant things
to the peonies | sballas |
honeymoon island??
she brushes sand off
the chessboard | sballas |
at the campfire
another round
of ringtones | sballas |
the marigold
in a plastic cup
mother's day | sballas |
bobwhites
throughout the canyon
sunset colors | sballas |
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