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valentine's day his dog drops driftwood at my feet
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breaking the ice i tell the cattle it is almost spring
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last days of winter?? a jumble of tarnished silver on the sideboard
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older suburb woven through with wild plum blossom
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as i reflect on growing old . . . daffodils!
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winter twigs?? the buds forming at the scars
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seed catalogs?? garden plans grow around a toad house
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open crocuses wind lifts the feathers on a starling's throat
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her third birthday tulips bend under a light snow
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waking up not alone cherry blossoms
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farmers? market?? on the mangoes in the straw a strand of tinsel
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pinging sleet she tugs tight each stitch
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the bootprints end?? the brook keeps flowing into the deep woods
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dark so soon a stand of pines with snow-broken limbs
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warm from the dryer summer clothes for the suitcase
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christmas concert?? mary keeps the beat on the baby jesus
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mouse sounds a chunk missing from the moon
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town dump a bear just sits there in the falling snow
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biting wind our words fly over each other's heads
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if purple were my color . . . twilight snow
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first love the sterile flower of queen anne's lace
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"slow slow dusk" cicadas flood the pause
between apologies
caught in the revolving door sunset
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ocean dusk a tattler hauls a morsel from the shallows
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first cold night?? the plumber swears in polish
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windy afternoon two beetles manage to mate on the goldenrod
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farm auction . . . the green side of a tomato
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the off season leaves cover the nude beach
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a leaf in no hurry indian summer
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days shortening?? his childhood sketches of dinosaurs
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leaning trees almost touch across the creek a dove's flight display
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sultry night the rhythm of oars stroking the lake
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clipping tags from luggage . . . summer's end
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rolling in with the morning fog seabird on a wave
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mist into rain the drone of a small plane blends with our chanting
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headwaters the dipper's shadow follows its call
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out of names?? we sit silent in the dark among the stars
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autumn dusk the gates of the lock close behind us
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point reyes lighthouse how the deep note travels on the water
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school bell . . . noticing her for the first time
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chess in the park . . . an acorn topples a king
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sandcastles new friends work on old problems
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the child blowing on a pinwheel?? the wind blowing on her
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cracked soil a day laborer bent over his shadow
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distant thunder a revolutionary cannon green with age
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summer night a smoker's cough and the clack of mahjong tiles
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sitting on the hill "of mom's pregnant belly "
the lego castle
my kinfolk don?t say a lot hemlocks all around
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wildfire vultures circling the outer thermal
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blue violets . . . the coolness of evening ascending the mountain
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as it stretches "back to preen the sinews"
of a swan's neck
ants working late in the afternoon sun . . . a drifting contrail
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the milky way?? a glowworm reaches the tip of a rose
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sultry afternoon?? wingtip laces work loose
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deep in summer the river over and under my hair
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on the sergeant's grave a wild jackrabbit nibbling grass
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cabbage butterfly floating in the breeze laundry day
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big sky the sharp edge of the spur
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sunlit trampoline my grandsons bare their chests
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lightning the blue afterimage of your white hands
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first light the beachcomber begins his rounds
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graduation day?? we hold hands more tightly as our son's name is called
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my baby's sigh the last colors of sunset
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negotiations?? the butterfly's wings open and close
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what should have been said?? how the sand pulls from under my feet
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temple grounds?? one finch feeds another
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white butterflies lost in the barley lost in the wheat
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long day . . . the lizard's hind leg stretched too far
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race weekend the worn paths to the restrooms
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palm sunday the sound of a frond ripping
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bearing down on a borrowed pen do not resuscitate
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a slight shake of bells as the harness comes off night snow
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moonless night children's muffled voices from the snow fort
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winter sky?? a skein of wild birds unravels
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blinding ice my saw releases the scent of pine
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spring cleaning?? i never cared for the scent of her letters
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his sax echoes in the walkway tunnel warm wind
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a wildness blowing through the neighborhood with the snow
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cold morning a thin cat slips in the closing door
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the wrong side of town a paw print collects water
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cactus bloom i decide to forgive myself
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cold spell the man at the ballot box reading nietzsche
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both parents in his room snowy evening
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this cold night . . . a child's hunger embedded in pixels
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cold winter sky intertwined branches of an old beaver lodge
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the reddened snow six ravens and a coyote removing the elk
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hard frost a dumpster's lid slams shut
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the long sigh of a pregnant girl december wind
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frozen solid two withered leaves overlap
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snowy field a small creature's tracks interrupted by wing prints
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a russian winter?? each book weighs several pounds on the kitchen scale
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autumn dusk i wave to a girl waving to someone else
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first time up this creek the dragonflies won?t keep still
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crescent moon the beaver shreds a lotus leaf
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moonlit grass a farmer whistles catfish to the surface
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our locked gate?? earth stops the falling leaves
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mushrooms tilting into each other?? misty rain
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a place under the willow tree?? autumn rain
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autumn mist in the beggar's hand?? his empty stare
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autumn evening her seventh rejection of my proposal
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