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Six days to solstice -

the woodpecker chipping

last clutches of spring.

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Four-thirty p.m. -

a caterpillar

chewing its shadow.

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June twelfth a'swirl

cotton chases, white laces

... of poplar.

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June sun

a caterpillar dozing

in red sable.

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Feathers of green wheat

in the kindness

of a June breeze.

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... pop! hot-hot!

hot roof! hot-hot!

hop squirrel hop-hop-pop! ...

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The sweat of the day

and falling

snows of cottonwood.

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Softened

in pin feathers and dust

... the gargoyle's grimace.

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Spent and bending home

but, in that raspy way

... a Steller's Jay.

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