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After writing
I soap the dishes, shake the sheets, smile, talk, work, kiss. But my heart is pulsing and my breath is caught: I travelled to a distant land and spare bare thoughts for home. ________________________________ Read more
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No blanket
No blanket for me: big cat, oven-hot, pressed to my heart – all I need. _________________ Read more
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From the fishpond
I. Seasons (A poem in four linked haiku) We orange, we silver, we brazen dazzlers twisting around Summer’s knees: gold torpedoes flirt with air and blue sky, black bugs sucked from water’s lip into hungry throats. A daily feast of algae. We grow fat. But now comes Fall. Beware – and clupe with bulging eye Read more
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Geese, again.
Geese, again. The skies are letting summer fly through rents in pewter clouds. _______________________ Read more
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Those tenacious tendrils
Squash plants: how the tendrils cling fiercely to the nearest thing persistently insinuating yet with the merest touch. Climbing up the chain link fence their daintiness is all pretense the weight they hold – it makes no sense! They’re strong as Jean Valjean. Melons, gourds, meaty orange Hubbards will soon be resting in our cupboards Read more
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Mabelline the dancing queen
was real sweet, she didn’t mean to make a mess, but when she saw the earth, she couldn’t stop her paw from digging down and shovelling up mountains of the rich, wet stuff until the plant sagged toward the ground and silt and soil piled all around. Then, with her tail puffed up for joy, Read more
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