Saturday, July 31, 2010


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In the canyon fields
of a fallen leaf, two ants
battle.

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Flakes
of crumbled leaf, to each
... an ant.

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Morning sparrows ...
the jay glides
in whisper.

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Saturday ...
like me, the stubble
of bramble berries.

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Heavy mist ...
like willow
the alder weeps.

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Stranded in blue
the sun, the dandelion
stranded too.

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Friday, July 30, 2010


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Sweeping ...
again and again
the jay's feather.

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Brown summer leaves ...
the fly's
crunching steps.

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Stands Burning
in Evening Sun
... the robin's name.

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Swelling berries ...
only these tattered blossoms
for late bees.

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In the morning's fog
slippery roads

... for spiders.


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Morning drizzle ...
grey fleeces peppered
with crows.

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Ailing poplar ...
tiny prayers
in threads of glass.

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Purple veins and spikes ...
bramble gorged with the blood
of old sparrows.

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Morning sprinkle ...
the bee
tending berries.

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Poetry and dreams ...
the sun reads on
without me.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010


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The setting sun ...
a mention
of crows.

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Bird and bug and leaf ...
that other summer
in ev'ning shadows.

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Summer cracks and crackle ...
the spider's silver
stretched thin.

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The butterfly
the dragonfly
flutter bye and bye ...

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Summer wind ...
the tree's shadow
too.

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High sun and blue ...
the flashing
of swallows.

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The pair of flickers ...
summer lovers and love
beneath apples.

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Monday, July 26, 2010


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Sticky winds ...
catching
the squirrel's itch.

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Fly, shoo!
you're tickling 'round
in my summer!

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Ha! ...
summer squirrel, just look
at our pale bellies!

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Wedged
watching from the tree, all
but the mouse's tail.

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Thoughts of sakura
lifted in feathers
of tall summer grass.

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Hot and voiceless day ...
the cottonwoods
just cottonwoods.

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Downside-up ...
the chickadee betters
my best chickadee.

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Friday, July 23, 2010


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Ruins in the rain ...
the broken glass
of a butterfly.

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Clear waters ...
the spider
has drowned.

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Soaring games ...
the heavy shadows
of swallows.

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Two roads, a man
the sparrows
... one mind.

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Morning peanuts
for crows, for the love
of sweeping.

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Thursday ...
the sparrow sings
of morning rain.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010


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Hiding in a mist
even the waxing moon
... away mosquitoes!

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In our mosquito nets ...
the spider
has other plans.

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Sunset
threading in bramble
... a tangle of gnats.

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The crow
announces it won't
be visiting.

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Sunrise ...
night has erased the rose
and written petals.

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The squirrel ...
for each seed
a little prayer.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010


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Twilight towers ...
the homeless man
tracing new stars.

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Hopping pickets ...
the dragonfly's
shadow.

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Beneath a half moon
the towhee's name
... Cries In Alder.

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Traced in a wind
the sparrow's
summer sketches.

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Searching for words
in summer meadow, the towhee
... searching too.

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Petals peel and fall ...
the hurried whispers
of berry bees.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010


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One, twooo
threeeeee mouse bellies
through the grid.

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The berry bees ...
fresh kisses
for the blossoms they'd missed.

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Eastbound jet
added to the complaints
of crows.

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Deserted cabin ...
bramble watching
bramble in the rain.

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Field mouse
picking through the trash
of sparrows.

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