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heavy going through the waterlogged field clay-pigeon shards
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a rainy slope where legions fell . . . thistles
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wild mint in the spring forest a chance encounter
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rocky shore . . . the trout on my line pulls you closer
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cabin fever . . . bullrushes bursting in the vase
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shredded checks?? the robin weaves my life into its nest
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warm breeze?? new ivy leaves finding their place in the sun
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spring moon . . . from the street girl's hand a shadow rabbit
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crabapple blossom?? the older twin always one step behind
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temperature drop?? the way stars are a witness
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swollen moon?? the sudden urge to push
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the fire's scent lingering morning moon
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cold snap . . . waking to the creak of house timbers
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clatter of pipes when i turn the tap off snowy night
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a hawk's cry i listen to the gathering dark
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how strange this human body not queen anne's lace not thistle
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frigid morning the brittle echo of a crow
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winter evening my boy calls to say he's feeling better
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an ancient wick casts shadows on the wall?? mother's soft humming
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milky way?? maybe tonight i?ll conceive
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twinkling stars again we pass the house we?ll never buy
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wounded knee?? trying not to speak above the wind
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the geyser erupts?? for a moment i forget the smell of sulfur
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conversation above the kitchen clatter summer evening
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stepping stones a dragonfly lands on my shoe
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zinnias . . . why yes my favorite was harpo
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the dog and i on the moonlit dock scratching bug bites
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august evening grandfather whittles the light away
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this sky too blue to last chickadee
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vertical dive?? the ocean folds over a tern
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a stream begins in the middle of the trail thrush beyond thrush
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day-long downpour . . . dressing the children for the ex-wife's wedding
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the longest day he stills the mower at twilight
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rippled sand . . . each trough cradles the glint of shells
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midsummer day?? tilting a longneck all the way up
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morning sun the honeybee's abdomen pulses
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haggling over price?? the frozen jaw of a warehouse tuna
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midsummer sea silver ripples from an otter's back
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beachside caf? a bit of sand in the waiter's ear
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thunder?? a looping inchworm's rhythmic slide
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every spring the same question . . . returning bees
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sunrise a shoot half out of its seed skin
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faint scent of lilacs i wonder what he means by
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paper cranes the yellow birch unpleats its leaves
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beachcombing . . . a wave picks up and drops the sun's reflection
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lantern light the river slips through our fence
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first buds?? the oriole sings its love song
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from the secret place . . . the mother dog with her litter
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sun-dappled sidewalk shadows of new leaves play on stains of the old
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moonless night foxfire where there was a forest road
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in blinding snow sweet silage smell from a door left open
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winter morning the flag-draped coffins of a few
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winter sun the last photographs in mother's album
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all day rain a whistle of wind breaks the rhythm
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the ewe nudges her lamb once more?? ravens cawing
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more snow . . . the nag of an itch i can?t reach
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thin clouds the ladle steams above my bowl
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rain-lashed valley the ram's wool matted over his bones
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bevy of sparrows a creek breaks its winter banks
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a brown leaf dangles among the buds?? the ambulance arrives
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the darkness of long-empty stables?? quaker meetinghouse
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three-quarter moon the windmill rusted into silence
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sunset and moonrise?? if only i could learn to be faithful
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october frost the tread of the landlord on crisp brown leaves
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grandmother the stoop in her shadow
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soldiers coming home . . . three wasps circle where the nest used to hang
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click-clack of the bead curtain?? the sway of her hips
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a sioux tunic embroidered with elk teeth behind smudged glass
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thin marsh ice my father attempts an embrace
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a sparkler fizzles into darkness year's end
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ripening wheat?? he whistles the latest love song
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i don?t know what to tell her . . . bruised mint
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dog days?? pulling off cockleburs
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summer's eve i turn the glider cushion to its clean side
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late summer crossing the memory of a stream
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beach cabanas flapping in the breeze the sound of idle chatter
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handshake not a kiss starless night
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summer evening a cook in the alley points his knife at the moon
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muggy evening a door slams shut in the dead man's house
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sunset i absorb the stillness in the trees
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stars begin to fade . . . so much music from unseen birds
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slow train journey a gull's shadow takes the lead
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worn out day?? rocks the river left on top
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midsummer a speedboat slices the lake in half
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scorching heat?? the shrilling of cicadas pierces me
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nameless falls a water ouzel at rainbow's end
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dead man's curve?? a screech owl veers toward the river
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after each turn of the page the fly
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thunderclap?? the sun tea darkens
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secret campsite chilled beer clinks in midstream
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first night out on their own . . . my seedlings
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spring breeze?? a mosquito in the sap of a beaver stump
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day after memorial day a rolling trashcan filled with flags
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field stones the broadness of the farmer's back
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fragile truce?? beet seedlings in a crooked row
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milkmoon?? my daughter nurses her plastic doll
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spring hail the horse rolls its tongue over the fencepost
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market stroll?? rotating a coin in my pocket
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summer solstice the long shadow cast by a plastic t-rex
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swimmers at the middle of the lake graduation night
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