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moonlit grass and black shapes of cattle a distant flute
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street fair?? easy to find the balloon man
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road-testing her electric car the silence of stars
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chilies roasting . . . the old pickup truck backfires
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getting acquainted our children fight over a seashell
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summer rain i walk through the odor of the sky
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cinco de mayo?? losing my daughter to the dance floor
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temple steps?? a man with a snake offers to tell my future
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mother's day i cut the long white root from a carrot
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deep in thought the pitcher plant wide open
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warm day a koi sways on her fan
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still not tired to give?? apricot tree
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a moment alone in the desert of iraq her damaged photo
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butterfly garden . . . a big voice answers a small one
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the day begins descendants of dinosaurs "darting
singing"
near the mountain top?? the wind doesn't stay on the path
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auction day dead leaves swirl around the stone seat
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wordless in my borrowed tongue plum blossoms
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unseasonal heat a woodpecker and its ideas
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a blossom in the bird bath sunny side up
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mind chatter?? interrupted by wildflowers
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narrow sidewalk i'm under her umbrella for a moment
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first sumi-e my apologies to the bamboo
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each needle on the saguaro first light
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stray thoughts a butterfly probes the netting
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a handstand just to see if i can?? honeysuckle
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one leaf's slow somersaults . . . oh to start over
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grandad's story candle light flickers in the snakeskin's eye
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north wind the holes in my beliefs
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valentine's day i divide the orange segments
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he rolls a smoke with blunt-tipped fingers . . . huddled sparrows
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winter sun the spine of one book out of line
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a blizzard outside i want to believe what the preacher says
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kindling no time like now for that first kiss
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power breakdown?? a mother nursing in the dark
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canyon winds pine cones skip from cliff to cliff
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ragged clouds how it feels to hold a rake
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chicken wire the softness of the rabbit's nose
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labor day the crease finally worked into new shoes
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hot night an odor widens her nostrils
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dog days the ice cream jingle a four-measure loop
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the close of day?? only a peg and a finch left on the line
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low in the west under the belly of a dog the setting sun
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summer pond no more room for the blue sky
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day moon the street vendor's arms gleaming with bangles
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hearing it first through the dog distant thunder
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evening moon?? the last bale of hay ascends the conveyor
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a baby's lost sock soaking up the dew dandelion spheres
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meandering stream clydesdales rest their heads on each other's rumps
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worlds apart?? two river-worn pebbles in my palm
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graduation packed a door is open to the cooling world
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cornflowers brighten the kitchen my mother's eyes
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hot blue sky lamb's blood on the rook's tongue
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our cab ride one love song long&nbsp? spring moon
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young daughters whisper in the gallery statue of zeus
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rain-pocked dust the shell of a snail not yet hard
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cooling the air trees in a village sketched by c?zanne
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another mother calling her child too?? the dark of the wind
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crescent moon?? the cat grooms the tip of his tail
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first spring day?? picking up a warm stone
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into the teeth of a cherry petal wind sparrows
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a tangled nest of fishing line spring birdsong
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stern wind the branch an osprey adds to its nest
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the kittens can't yet see us spring night
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overflowing mailbox arm deep in forsythia
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steppingstones in the pond tadpoles
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muddy pond i play the role of a ghost to fish
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cold snap the scent of garlic clings to his meat grinder
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year's end clouds carrying off scraps of moonlight
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tracks of the pallbearers winter dusk
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unlabeled shapes from the back of the freezer winter stars
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daylight moon?? the pregnant moose settles into snow
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candlelight?? the room shrinks and grows with every breath
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closed casket the funeral director's peppermint breath
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winter stars the fishing holes left behind
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deep winter the old cat squeezes between us
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winter's end a smell of curry in the old people's home
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river gravel the stone i once skipped
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freeway drizzle he helps his only daughter move out
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october sunset the glow of tomatoes on the sill
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the mugo pine gathers maple leaves . . . my husband chose me
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sweater weather the tip of a cane in the crosswalk
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gibbous moon a paper cut from
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awakening to the fly-off shuffle of pigeons from the roof
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a grackle in every tree random thoughts
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train rails lead away from here?? autumn wind
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not as funny as it sounds dead duck
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strangler fig the cooling shade around me
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&nbsp?????night garden all the births and deaths that will go unrecorded
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virgin forest?? moonlight sinks into earth with my pee
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least bittern . . . i hold the paddle tight against the current
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our passing breeze?? a do not disturb sign swings on the hotel door
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summer dusk a white flag waves from the tree house
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dying embers?? a few new twists in an old ghost tale
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what we don't speak of?? the rain-soaked gate swollen shut
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releasing him . . . the bull trout's back scarred by talons
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drifted sand over campfire ash?? summer's end
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paddy fields . . . a heron glides past bent backs of women
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the hills stir with unmown hay . . . summer dusk
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faraway voices fishing nets thrown in the spotlight
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