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last day of school . . . paper butterflies unpinned from the board
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skinnydipping?? river current streamlining my body
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nightfall . . . blowing out the marshmallow
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the faint shine of camellia buds . . . winter moon
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not a bride anymore still the plum blossoms
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lambing the smell of wet sweaters fills the barn
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spring downpour . . . so many words for rain
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cattle lowing . . . a clod of earth clings to the fork
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sunny wall the marks of time on my skin
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the valley's browns still edged with white tinkle of the beck
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spring rain my garden still in packets
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more rain i know i know i squawk back at a jay
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lilacs in bloom a clerk washes the town hall windows
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north dakota border slosh of the greyhound toilet
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my son's birthday a red poinsettia leaf flutters to the ground
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clear cold night my dog barks at his own echo
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restless night the threadbare edge of her quilt
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winter blues?? the harmonica man plays for wall street
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moldering leaves?? the wind blows me deeper into winter
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winter sunlight the birdsong that lingers in evergreens
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caught in a lie?? icicles shatter on the stones
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waiting becomes living late winter
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tossed up by churning waves a painted open? sign
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without you is better oak leaves rattle against the moon
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driving to the airport?? the smell of dog lingers on my hand
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sea-scuffed cave the peregrine's cries lost to the firth
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a sales call my only conversation autumn loneliness
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father asks if it's time to go?? cricket song
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hometown the hug of the hills
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october evening?? "somewhere a scrub jay"
keeps asking
death anniversary prayer flags drip in the rain
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remains of pine filling with twilight a coming going world
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sunrise over the lake the pregnant woman swims on her back
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sound of rain the faded e? on the internet caf? keyboard
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deep night spending some time putting stars together
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rocky shore waves break the gannets? huddle
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toothache?? a woodpecker comes to stab the suet
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tide life spitting back part of the beach
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moon the way it looked when i was young
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the feel of a stone through the pickaxe handle?? forked lightning
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drawing me to the edge canyon wren
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cigarette stubs in ashtrays in old photos
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an ant carries more than its weight?? morning prayer
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summer opera?? her fan stops fluttering during the main aria
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creak of floorboards the musty shop smell of ancient redwoods
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the drought year written in flies on the river-bed
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cliff dwellings my perspiration salts ancient stone
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my 73rd summer the shadows of butterflies
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dog days the wind harp's lost chord
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chanting over . . . the rustle of peepal leaves in the temple
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swelter . . . the brick carrier's hod heavy with shade
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deserted street the hot wind rolling an empty can
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morning mist the squirrel swaps poplars
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spring rain the cleaner everyone likes comes to say goodbye
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pink dianthus two parasols bend to the scent
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one song answered by another ocotillo blooms
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mango season married long enough to eat in silence
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a silent stirring in the wood anemones?? white butterfly
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rush hour the smell of green onions on the cross-town bus
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soft breeze a hyacinth fills me
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skunk cabbage i?ve decided to say nothing
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fossil forest your cheek against mine for a photo
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scarred by skates the spring ice moans
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slow train home a man skims ecclesiastes on his kindle
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that yellow bird's back how we end up where we do
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it must?ve happened before a drop of spring rain in my green tea
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spring sun i wait for the snake to move
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perennial . . . the garden i dream of
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loblolly pine the scent of grandfather's diary
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dandelions all these clothes that don?t fit
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so lightly a morning rainbow disappears in the rice paddy
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kite festival?? the startling red of a cockscomb
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a crow cleans its beak on an ice-covered bough early morning sun
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her illness beyond our care winter birds
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deep snow hoses curled under the sundeck
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morning prayers the suet cake pecked thin
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everything we have in common plum blossom rain
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a nursing home blanket over all her sharp edges?? midwinter
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the difference a sparrow makes?? bare branches
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deep winter?? a seal skin tacked to my neighbor's door
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new moon?? my friend coming out of her dark phase
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do we all mark time with blossoms
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a crow pecks at something small and still . . . autumn dunes
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she salts the soup without even tasting ??autumn sky
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sculpture garden the way the blackbird sings from the metal tree
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winter solstice cranberries popping in the saucepan
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new year's eve the lights of crab boats evenly spaced
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the uncarved faces in the pumpkin fields diagnosis day
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autumn mist . . . the homeland i know only in dreams
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nightfall a freezing wind brings the chimes of goat bells
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a star it's only light years
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each of us with a story to tell?? winter stars
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summer ends the wallah takes down the raincoat array
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fine mist he says frogs i say crickets
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kindergarten drama the leafy sea dragon sheds her sleeves
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top down day a yellow leaf drifts in
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the old ball field?? a turnstile going nowhere
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autumn twilight the boarded up window of the tree house
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melancholy runs in the family sparrow song
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heron in flight?? the rowing coach claps out a rhythm
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