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icy pavement unopened buds shrink and fall from the trees
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blood moon forced to become a woman
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light rain lavender blossoming in a sketchbook
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rain puddle a child’s gumboot splashing stars
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french cheesecake – all our thoughts coated in sugar
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solstice night – the insomnia of bushfire
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first light . . . the bright scent of tea leaves
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bathroom mirror always a stranger in my place
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campfire— the autumn leaves losing light
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white dawn... the cherry-tree in bloom before the sun
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first day of the year fresh snow covers the old
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petals of azalea in my memory something is lost
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triple malt beer a loud laugh measures the night
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crescent moon -- the street magician's trick finally revealed
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drying laundry — the faded colors of twilight
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cooking together-- a touch of cinnamon on my lips
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Late summer; the greyness of dusk without fireflies.
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Herding sheep; the prickly smell of wet wool.
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estuary dusk the shadow of a net post reaches the water
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long afternoon… the sky trickling from a tide pool
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twilight tide the last glimmering of oystercatchers
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summer lilac bent to the heat of the railroad
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distant thunder a boy sets his coin on the rail track
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daybreak the fox's breath thinning in the frost hollow
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almond blossom the stillness after love
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spring heat - the imprint of grass in her thighs
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heat shimmer the first blooming railroad flowers
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railroad dusk - a needle amongst the ballast stones
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endless stars... the braille on the box of sleeping pills
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thinning moon the clock set deeper into autumn
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Central Park the echo of her voice in every direction
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north wind . . . 'I too was a hippie' the cabbie says
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faltering light ... alone with the cry of a loon
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flood of moonlight ... "the drip drip
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winter raindrops along a strand of barbed wire -- visiting day
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in and out of the confessional winter light
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motel night alone with the moans of winter wind
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'I used to be ...' at the corners of his mouth saliva stains
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the flicker of a vigil candle year's end
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street corner at dusk ... a middle-aged man wrapped in last week's news
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wolf moon a stranger's smell on her body
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breakup kiss ... the line between sky and winter sea
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french kissing on the bridge with love locks two pink-haired girls
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starless night a lantern boat sailing out to sea
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kites tangle in summer twilight father and son
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the clattering of mahjong tiles ... summer rain
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the end of a chalk rainbow -- foreclosure sign
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downsizing ... a winter star and I in the puddle
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slanted sunlight in the Meditation Hall a drift of dust
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cherry blossom rain laughter chasing laughter
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moonlit pond ... a frog jumps from star to star
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sourdough smell of age the cold rain pattering against motel windows
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blood-red earth pattering on his coffin winter rain
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long way home ... windshield wipers clear the silence between us
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the space between etched names... war cenotaph
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pinned butterfly ... needle marks on the girl’s left arm
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"""Now Hiring""" flaps in the winter wind ... last rays of sunlight
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faraway whistle of the night train . . . mother's lullaby
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the meaty grin of her red-lipped mouth my divorce lawyer
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snowy dawn ... bits of yesterday cling to today
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a dried lotus leaf in Tibetan Book of the Dead... winter dusk
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the darkness between winter stars ... relapse
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Goodwill Window Sale homeless man's reflection and mine
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the rail tracks toward a harvest moon thoughts of home
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among mourners this cloak of silence between crows
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her laugh echoes through the empty house the sound of snow
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breezy morning the scent of steamed buns ends meditation
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filling the hour between news of war snowflakes
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writing haiku ... my wine glass fills with sunlight
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"""I'm married"" ..." ice cubes shifting in her wine glass
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mist trailing over the autumn fields . . . a raven's cry
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yellow ball of yarn in my mother’s hand harvest moon
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one year gone on her side of the bed winter moonlight
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a paper cut from her dear john letter Friday the 13th
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blind date her face half revealed in moonlight
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noonday heat a white man staring at me me staring back
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rose branches weighed down with snow ... hospice garden
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another new grave in winter mist war cemetery
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forget-me-nots along the border fence refugee children
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Rated R -- the orgasm of sudden rain
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distant gunshots ... sunflower petals fold into night
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midnight moon... one long howl and then no more
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"""dust to dust . . . """ the widow's shadow on the coffin
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the stare of a newborn ... starry night
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the click of her red high heels ... divorce court
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her short life packed in an urn smell of winter
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drifts of fog ... first job interview in one year
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summer storm the windscreen wipers slice our silence
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fireworks show the migrant speaks of the home he left behind
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a latch clicks on the vacant house ... winter solstice
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first day of spring the lingering scent of rare books
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faint pencil marks on the wall -- her dead child's room
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the smell of summer heat ... roadkill
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foreclosure sign in its shadow a dollhouse
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one by one frogs make holes in the pond ... starry night
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a butterfly tattooed on her buttock summer heat
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a new moon -- mother's letter heavy with voices from the past
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alone by candlelight thinking of that spring we met and another spring…
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spicy chicken … this impulse to ask if she's married
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church graveyard a cloud of crows hover over stone angels
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