Sunday, June 27, 2010


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Full moon -
black meadow blue and the spice
of tall summer.

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Creeping through grasses
the burning belly
of a robin.

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Fledgling sparrow
shaking, its cries-n-byes
... and the mother flies.

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Into sands
the ant carries the moth
... home.

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A cawl cawl cawl
and just like that, nine crows
a'cawl cawl cawlin'.

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Thursday, June 24, 2010


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Passing cottonwood ...
other springs
other poets.

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A sparrow's feather
in lace of grasses, Ah!
... the spider was here.

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No cause, no cause! -
the Steller's jay
gives me a feather.

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The cottonwood's
shadow has
already landed.

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These lines
given of a white dragonfly
who gave them to me.

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Path of the sparrow
for a moment
... path of a wind.

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Haiku -
memories of the Earth
leaf by leaf by ...

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Helicopter
spoiling summer skies, still
... silent crows.

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The sparrow's reflection
off to that other summer
... that other forest.

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The jay's shadow
snatching
shadow peanuts.

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P.M. -
a chickadee's bed hair
... imagine that!

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From a cavern
of June forest, the robin
the robin, the robin ...

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Cut grass -
grey squirrel
hiding a fat treasure.

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Blushing cherries -
in green shadow, the jay
cracking peanuts.

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010


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Two whistles
from a chickadee -
Ha!
I didn't think
of that!

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Too high the hawk -
bye-bye crows, cry cry cry
try, fly crows ... 'bye crows ...

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Hawk in cedar -
a song
dies tonight.

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Eyes in tall shadows -
the sparrow sings
a sunset.

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Across a rising moon
the hawk
... full of song.

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Forest of silk
and summer wheat
... the winter wren.

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Ha!
seed flung everywhere!
... et tu, chickadee?

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Dip of Sunday's rain
full of Tuesday
... full of sparrows.

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... pretending sleep
pretending rain
pretending crickets ...

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Monday, June 21, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010


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... but no points of return
so into the wind he calls
and the crow falls ...

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Rumbling, rumbling
grumbling from the neighbors
all ... day ... long ...

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Drops ...


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... her face, sleeping
sleeping on a train
a train through meadows
meadows weeping with rain
in the rain, her face ...

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Friday, June 18, 2010


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Haaawk! Bad haaawk!
Haaawk! Haaawk! Haaawk!
... cry the crows.

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Fingertip of rose -
the hummingbird whispers
another name.

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Park n' Ride -
the dragonfly
pretending meadow.

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Melting in warm rains
the vain lines
of last week's mow.

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A summer patch -
the silk mendings
of a spider.

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Etudes
from bits of yesterday
... the sparrow.

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Meadow golds and greens
pinching to greys and sparrows
clutch to whispers.

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Before the rain
a Steller's Jay hides
the last blue.

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010


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Nine crows rumble
a paltry o'nuts -
po' li'l jay jus' cry cry cry ...

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Shoo crow! Shoo!
ain't no damned secrets
in that raked up grass!

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Three drenched crows
fanning on a fence
drying their Tuesday's best.

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After rain
fingers of sun teasing
soppy crows.

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Monday, June 14, 2010


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Sweet mock orange
weeping petals
... the fly's silence.

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Yes, two sides
to every leaf
... the fly.

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Chases on the roof
spinning north, skipping south
... games of cottonwood.

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Tiny clouds
of cottonwood -
the fly ... we dream.

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Sprinkles of rain -
the fly abandons
its prayers.

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A morning crow
leaving me
the lesser view.

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Too much sky
too much
for a hummingbird cloud.

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