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the rain almost a friend this funeral
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tired new mom - brown leaves falling from the green trees
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baby's got two months "in the forest all is new"
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curly morning clouds half round the moon and me
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my childhood room slow movements of the ladybug covered in dust!
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sunny spell so sensual the necks of daffodils
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how can he love so much? warm evening light on the waving dog's tail
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frosty grass the horse's neck already in the sun
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April thunderstorm at the feet of the statues of queens of France flowers of chestnut trees
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October full moon on the rails -- hot wind
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a child scan the mutilated face -- sound of crate
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silence the moon breaks through the firework smoke
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another test another doctor visit long winter nights
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two moons on August 27th Mother's birthdate
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saw grass-- bluebottles teeming on a white skull
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late afternoon-- the first cow heads to the barn
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porn shop- the graying clerk reads Hegel
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cold snap- her pause before each tulip
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Coltrane two floors up...floats out a window
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her hair brushed with moonlight... forty years ago
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molten by a morning sun frozen cranes take wing one by one
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not breathing Japanese cranes pausing in the snow
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a hundred thousand spectators three laureates a moth
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flooded paddies floating rice shoots - relentless rain
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unmown grass in the cemetery - lighting bugs
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the colour of wind through pine trees must be blue
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lighthouse above the sound silence
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cancer ward - a yellow woman applies lipstick
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mother daughter lunch storm and thunder
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laundry encounter a plastic shark falls out of a bath towel
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'seven samurai' * half the village burning while my son makes popcorn
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wild fires in the mist the ashes
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grandfather's grave just another stone for the dragonfly
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a sleepless hour first the geese then the train
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fall clock the deer by the pond an hour earlier
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morning troubles it starts with a dead cricket in the spider web
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cotton fields the only white left is the snow
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half moon mom's birthday without mom
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eclipse the path of the sun blocked by billboards
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ring around the moon I remember parts of a nursery rhyme
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empty bleachers a late night fog takes the field
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butterfly on the windshield another journey incomplete
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early summer the ice cream truck makes another round
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old cottonfields a long time between snows
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harmonica player he cups the cold in his hands
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our anniversary so many candle flames in the mirror
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new gravesite the persistent taps of a woodpecker
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emergency broadcast we head for the storm cellar with a bottle of wine
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late spring each clock in the house shows a different time
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leaving home the warmth still inside my freshly ironed shirt
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gray drizzle for miles and miles this road I'm on
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liberty market one free pickle from the barrel
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christmas album every year he wears the same flannel shirt
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murmur of rain hard to catch the words when he talks in his sleep
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moonless night a spoonful of darkness stirring my tea
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bullfrog chorus one a little louder than the rest
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failed copy the real iris bluer than the photograph
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sad news the blur of reading through tears
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summer haze the thin gauze of her white dress
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pale legs under a white moon~ shivering aspen
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beach house a bit of sand in my tea
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dark lamp shade-- squinting her eyes in low light to read your letter
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tuesday sunrise spilling grains of sugar in my black tea
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bitter quarrel the lingering taste of too many aspirin
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last train a woman's scent in a lost scarf
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cello music cold creeps under the kitchen door
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prairie motel from my window stars and fireflies
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after the wave --- the grade crossing rings for nobody
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ginger hair on the mud all that  remains of a fox dream
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autumn storm -- the moth stuck at the window
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glances ... across the river the heron and me
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autumn night -- the animal cried a long time in the garden
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traffic jam high in the sky a heron flies by
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autumn storm in the computer room servers purr
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drizzle this morning islands drowned in the mist red lights of the bridge
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warm rain "smells of tar dirt
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a dew drop full of autumn light
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heavy leaves in the evening rain heaps of darkness
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air-raid alarm -- traffic lights are working for no one
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persimmon tree mallards drink in its reflection
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migratory pelicans... the pollster presses for an opinion
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crescent moon a young mockingbird with its one song
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fever dream a bird chirps the refrain from the latin mass
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first frost another wish goes on their list
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first frost why did I never plant evergreens?
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harvest days-- a fat toad leaves the garden
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the coming rain-- bird calls echo along the creek
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early spring pallets of fertilizer on the loading dock
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steeping tea-- no more or less of the thin snow
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first snow-- a dusting of flour in the cake pans
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cinco de mayo-- I walk downhill to watch the moon rise again
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spring storm-- overripe bananas in the kitchen
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evening thunder-- robin calls echo across the park
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the barn doors open-- dry leaves sweep into the muddy yard
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passing monarchs -- a few leaves flutter to the road
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cicadas at twilight finally it rains
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summer's end an orange sunset crayoned on the wall
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evening walk same flickering glow house to house
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between Lake Erie and the nuclear station fireflies
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the whole sky for the Sunday painter -- before thunderstorm
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