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quiet lake-- the only sound a jumping fish
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meteor shower-- in the cold our gasps become visible
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failing light-- the ash tree heavy with birds
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fall equinox-- another day in the 90's
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evening news-- the burden of snow on my son's balcony
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under the snowpack the garden buddha still keeps his smile
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uninvited guest-- a fly zips through the opened door
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stoplight each of us tapping to our own beat
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Mass over-- the rush to be first out of the lot
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5am-- bird songs lost in air conditioner noise
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at the feeder more birds than room the smell of snow
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midwinter vanished in a bite of homemade strawberry preserves
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while washing spinach how nice to find a haiku there
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covid 19 ...pish-the-bed puffbaws bidin a braith
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covid 19 ...dandelion puffballs awaiting a breath
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fir a new granbairn she lichts a caunle ...peerie lowe souchin
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for a new grandchild she lights a candle ...tiny flame breathing
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rin-ower pheasie ...tasht wattergaw
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run-over pheasant ...crushed rainbow
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maitin granfaither - the wye he yince maitit me
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feeding grandfather - the way he once fed me
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dudoon aye wairmth in her rosary beads
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sundow still warmth in her rosary beads
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a singul leaf reelin doon ...day o the yirdin
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a single leaf spiralling down ...day of the funeral
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thayr bairn's hame-wrocht mobile: streeng'n yill cans
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their baby's home-made mobile: string and beer cans
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it the bus-stap: a pish-the-bed seed baw bides fir a souch
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at the bus-stop: a dandelion seed ball waits for a breeze
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faimily tae bide - the hoose fou o peerie claes
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family to stay - the house full of tiny clothes
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derelict site - a buddleia ...such sweetness from ruins
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ootby the maisic chaumer twa youthie maws ...ettlin tae git in tuin
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outside the music room two young gulls ...trying to get in tune
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suddent the pish-the-bed batch... thair stobbie herrcuts
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suddenly the dandelion gang... their spiky haircuts
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dumpin's baw heich the err ...day o an eclipse
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kicking his ball high in the air ...day of an eclipse
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clear vause o roses - deep in the watter muckle breers
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clear vase of roses - deep in the water magnified thorns
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picnic - butterflies and flies in the butter
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hern an me - oor harns collin ilk ither
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heron and I - our brains shaping each other
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tree less corners the tall shadows of beer bottles
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Halloween night ghosts and goblins watch the rain
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desert wind the potter's fingerprints on an ancient shard
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together we watch the eclipse far apart
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faded asters the cortege pauses at her gate moves on
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biopsy just a cyst - this time a break in the clouds
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plastic flowers placed beside the highway memory fades
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mud puddles leaving behind a high heel
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heavy snow the smell of hot soup under a neon cross
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dead cat... open-mouthed to the pouring rain
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sleeper train the muted glow of unknown cities
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Fragrant spring blossom children play outside until there is no more light.
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howling wind the nurse increases mum’s morphine
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planetarium my child’s grip starts to loosen
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I dig a hole for the stillborn kitten . . . winter stars
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cold starry night - from the forest edge the sound of animal kill
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herd immunity -- wild turkeys crossing a busy highway
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24-hour news -- I can't stop looking at the fire
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pandemic life -- dandelion seeds in the air
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travel ban a flock of geese overhead
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retirement plans beach sand blowing in the wind
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self-quarantining without fanfare backyard Buddha
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reluctant to fly away the egret and I
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writer's block -- a ferry stalled at the dock
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industrial waste -- an otherwise great guitar solo
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northerly wind -- the shivering cord of a flagpole
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America first -- a line forms for the taco truck
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harvest moon -- a little boy's first haircut
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wolf moon -- the dog sniffs every footprint
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longest night -- we finish our wine too quickly
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high tide -- the smell of weed by the docks
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waning moon -- my mother pretends to know who I am
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house for sale -- dismantling the wheelchair ramp
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my retirement plan -- tree pollen floating in the wind
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new moon -- the final mortgage payment
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flower moon -- last stop of the bachelorette party
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a discolored wall where the mirror used to be
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double shift -- the cocktail waitress serves a whiskey sour
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end of summer -- one last bottle of wine
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empty subway station -- the accordion music pauses between trains
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sad news -- opening the windows to let the chill out
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far from Wall Street a cormorant dives
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lingering clouds -- a stock market sell-off
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open house -- the rushed paint strokes of the guest room
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prairie winter -- clouds approach the broken fence
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blizzard warning -- wishing I hadn't seen that black cat
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unripe pomegranates -- all that's left between us
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morning thunder -- the garbage man's early start
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Day of the Dead -- my unshaved face in the mirror
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in the ruins of a beach house wild orchids bloom
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equinox -- we split the last beer
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despite all my worry the fragrance of honeysuckle
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gibbous moon -- all that's left of summer
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end of summer -- watching the Dow fall
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late summer chill -- a young man's obituary
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lightning -- her nightgown comes off
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sturgeon moon -- an ancient burial site
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