.
stick from the yard
clears the window’s
winter cobwebs
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roadkill on the sidewalk
feeding crow lifts its head
no, a buzzard!
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moon at dawn
bright smudge
behind pink clouds
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azaleas
full-bloom
while I wasn’t looking!
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after the reading
empty room still full
of poetry
(for Gary Snyder)
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flowering pink dogwood:
the slow explosion of
life.
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blustery day
surf pounds, wind chimes crash
again, and again
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the young child
speaking English and Portuguese
humbles me
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from the tallest tree
a beetle falls
bounces, walks away
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absent father:
the singing toddler
kisses his photo
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on the hood
after the carwash
waterbeads tremble in the wind
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sunbeam
sends this moment
into the universe
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doing my taxes
I look up:
cardinal at the window
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on the balcony
toasting her ‘meteoric’ rise
falling stars
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fresh-cut grass
smell of wild onions
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spring snow flurries:
tiny stars
against my shirt