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first snowfall . . . a chirp to remind us the battery's low
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midnight mass the stained glass infant glows from within
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quiet twilight grandpa prunes thin limbs with his pocketknife
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full moon the static in his touch
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longest night?? the death poem rustles
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moonless night?? our neighbor's telephone rings and rings
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dead of winter . . . relighting the pilot flame
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calling home?? the color of mother's voice before her words
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lifting fog . . . the wing-whistle of a mourning dove
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the comfort of her conversation gentle rain
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foam flowers the pull of sand under my inner child
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salmon ladder the surrounding trees stuffed with eagles
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at the goldfish grave we form a circle of river stones
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sixth anniversary acorns between the cracks of the deck boards
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autumn twilight my breath in and out with the waves
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border collie rounding up the tide
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the hooked fish's last gasp . . . its eye on me
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autumn mist?? wrapped in grandma's shawl
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silted river an old doe turns to face the flow
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incessant rain a book from a library that no longer exists
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spring rain the door to the cuckoo clock about to open
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a one-window shack and sunflowers that sway . . . the short twilight
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warm evening breeze the cemetery gate still open
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a monitor measures my heartbeat the sound of rain
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tug of her hand?? a heron one breath away from the sky
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dying in birdsong day
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sultry night a passing train shakes the shack
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warm rain?? nevertheless fireflies
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heat wave the mailman fans himself with my bills
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reddening plums . . . the shy daughter's first date
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noon heat statue mime's hair stirring
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historic battlefield?? beyond the trenches the mole's earthworks
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sheet lightning the first strands of gray in her hair
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warm sunday afternoon mom and daughter ponytails chatting in the kitchen
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mercury beads rolling on the bathroom floor?? earthquake weather
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city horse tethered the ancient grassland in both eyes
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afternoon thunder the softness of my mother's touch
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dispersing clouds . . . bails of hay scattered in the fenced field
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jasmine tendrils?? waiting for my daughter's call
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dawn . . . the rooster for sacrifice calls in the temple
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dry creek bed the seven stepping stones to the other side
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licking raspberry stains from my palm?? the heat
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clear day . . . a painted turtle takes the plunge
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a raven's cry . . . the fading lines of the petroglyph
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left on the shrine the stone that tumbled from the cliff
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stepping stones she moves a little closer
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blue summer morning . . . the egret returns to the guppies? pond
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summer sky a damselfly stirs the blue air
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scent of sweet clover?? settling into the place i used to belong
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loon call a kayak emerges from the fog
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summer clouds a kite's shadow crosses the path
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thunder . . . a bag lets loose in the teacup
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weeding the borders . . . i strain to remember my new neighbour's name
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longest day?? it seems i will be lonely forever
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paddling the shallows the little boy stops for every shell
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scudding clouds?? the creak of wagon wheels through grandfather's journal
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rustling leaves scent of gardenia on my cat's fur
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in her sun hat "gardening she hums"
our song
my hands at rest in dishwater . . . first hummingbird
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blossom wind the sun on my side of the waves
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whelk egg case "my father and my child "
heads just touching
spring rain?? my stone's circle lost in the pond
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deformed horn the cattle egrets gather anyway
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the pulse in a knot of spiderlings warm breeze
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the movement of clouds between the hound's yawns
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pond path bubble eyes follow my footsteps
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a butterfly wavers in the heat dead-end road
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clover field in bloom a dent where the dog was
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spring morning green lights all the way to the freeway
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lost in apple blossoms the man with dementia knows where he's going
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hanging over the backyard fence twilight and wisteria
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loosening magnolias i linger in the darkness
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early rising the door's peek hole streams sunshine
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choppy river?? bursts of the coxswain's orders on the wind
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mother's day filling the bare spots with nasturtiums
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after the stars trout bones on a white plate
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lilac scent the sound of hair through her brush
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freshly painted door?? a bumblebee explores the color black
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spring training?? a father catches his breath
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sun after rain tadpoles in a circle point inward
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good friday the sudden whiteness of hawthorn
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empty pan on the radiator?? may begins
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holding high mi? on my air guitar?? spring morning
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misty rain the clown painting he meant to leave me
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soft greens and cherries full bloom?? but peace?
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earth day only a cherry petal in the donation jar
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the kite's tail ripped from knotty branches?? mockingbird song
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blue butterfly a little girl whistling to herself
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house for sale a vine almost to the end of the laundry line
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spring frost the wind-up toy stopped in midstride
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source of the creek a kinglet's breeding song
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early blossoms the hummingbird's throat brighter still
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two plovers and their shadows ploughed fields
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sold sign the nest in the leafless tree
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calving glacier a mother whispers to her child
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mountain torrent?? the water ouzel flicks a white eyelid
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the tips of crabapple buds april sunrise
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lawn daisies a boy tosses the ball to himself
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bare branches a coyote howls into the wind
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waiting in the room with the plaster skeleton?? early winter
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