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plum blossoms?? vitamins strewn across my plate
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magnolia in full bloom?? a new tingling in my breasts
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angle of repose a hermit thrush fills the valley
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songbirds in the dark the sound of my sister's voice when she lies
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the downpour ends first one peep then another
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the first bird to break silence . . . hour of the wolf
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icesnow?? the stab marks of her pronged cane
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flashlight shadows the storyteller's head fills the ceiling
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moonless night the splinter deep in my finger
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deep winter the splinter begins to fester
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rain turning to snow a beggar in the subway that no one believes
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winter stars we all hunt for his belt
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winter beach?? the size of gulls up close
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winter sun the iv pouch buckles
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home village nowhere to visit but the graveyard
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cicadas the double dutch girls take five
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onion skins in the kitchen sink?? leaves raked and piled
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warm rain batman rides on daddy's shoulders
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frost melt?? the pewit speaks its name
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late november no leaves to break the fall of heavy rain
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apples in the grass an empty swing sways from the branch
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fallen leaves around the maple do i have to go home
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morning chill a child's shadow moves thru mine
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that kind of day the wind at my back most of the time
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almost sunset?? my husband humming a tune of his own
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breakfast alone except for that cricket behind the fridge
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floating log your words carry me across the river
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autumn equinox a crow on the wire reverses its grip
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the same hilltop but on the other side of summer
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tug horn a cloud shadow puts out to sea
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rain on cedar shakes after long silence an old friend speaks
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desert breeze the clay jugs broken by shadow
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billowing clouds the mill's overshot wheel dark with moss
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bounding ahead over mountain roads the full moon
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autumn wave . . . the hiss of tiny pebbles
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arbor gate?? turning sideways to avoid the thorns
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beach sunrise daylight crawls crab by crab
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late summer echo of a motorcycle buzzing in the tunnel
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butterfly house our voices float in whispers
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vegetarian daughters fingers stained turmeric
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heat lightning through a stuck screen door
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oppressive heat?? tossing ice cubes to the junk yard dog
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lovers down the beach turn out to be driftwood
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storm shelter . . . a girl and her mother play itsy-bitsy spider
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two caterpillars crossing paths?? summer's end
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morning sun cherry petals drying on a turtle's back
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young green poplars . . . recalling that kind of intensity
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roadside huddle of thatched roof huts earthy rain scent
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the sweet peas begin their climb solstice
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wild roses the farm wife shears a gravid ewe
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first warm day harleys gleam the length of the diner
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budding maples?? an updraft of goldfinches
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manhattan skyline my son is getting married tonight
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weeds uprooted the earth under my fingernails
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mountain overlook a rush of perfume from the seniors? tour bus
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new year's day our neighbors? boots in the mud room
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after all the cell phone calls the pine
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a few heads nod as a vision is retold the candle's flame
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a winter sun drawn in yellow crayon?? the children's ward
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split white birch a beaver's wake reaches shore
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winter night my wish still among the stars
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word of a death the clarity of winter sunlight
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mud month?? a line of fox tracks divides the field
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morning warmth a boy stretching his step to match dad's
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hiroshima day multi-color threads on the weaving machine
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more footsteps?? the broken branch breaks again
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one deep breath for a moment the pine is part of me
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beginning of summer?? the heart of the watermelon saved for last
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oppressive heat?? a road crew rakes hay over grass seeds
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dry thunder the sound of sparrows in sunflowers
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church picnic?? grass butterflies stirred up by my skirt hem
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ebb tide the curve of the beach brighter
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spring afternoon the schoolchildren return to the dead squirrel
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evensong an upturned snail shell brimming with rain
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cardinal pair the girl i never asked to the high school dance
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a spider comes out to bundle its catch . . . evening rain
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spring sun her urn gathers the whole family
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a drifting cloud the line of frog eggs twitches
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fado love song . . . dust bunnies swirl ahead of the broom
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first of spring the mail carrier's knees
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mother's day one set of footprints along the beach
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hands on the balcony rails summer morning
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afternoon stillness a dragonfly touching circles in the pond
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swallowing an iron pill?? autumn melancholy
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log fire the landlord's reindeer nose
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passing headlights snow gathers on the horse's back
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crocuses bloom the old woman on the bench swings her feet
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the bonfire embers smoulder on to sundown honking geese
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the empty barrel still smells of apples . . . november snow
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evening snowstorm . . . a tinful of unsharpened pencils
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two crows into a headwind skittering leaves
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old dog gets up just to lie back down end of winter
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billowing clouds trailing the tractor windrows of hay
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chatter in the outfield katydids
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evening shadows?? a crow this side of the haze
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new girl at school maple pods twirling endlessly
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the river of heaven my body drifts away
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a gang of men followed by others the ripe grain
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august night the crack of the bat sends a chill
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moonlight on my hands the smell of parsnips
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