white-throated sparrow
imitates the mockingjay
fiction becomes real
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6 May 2021
Greensboro Bend VT
Category: Nature
babble of birdsong:
what tower could we construct
to know its meaning?
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5 May 2021
Champlain NY
fishermen sling boats
on the shore of Lake Champlain
cool spring night settles
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4 May 2021
Champlain, NY
Monday: Montcalm Park
a squirrel knocks branches down
mower scares the birds
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3 May 2021
Oswego NY
just as the rain starts
I move into the garage
van life in spring time
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2 May 2021
Farmington NY
deck chair flips over
ripped plastic waves like a flag
April roaring out
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1 May 2021
Farmington NY
wild
you say “we” as if we’re there with you
over low hills or along steep gorges
but really you’re there alone
striking out into the wild world outside
& the wilder one in
you’ve proven you can climb a mountain
or slip through one of those weird British gates
the true feat is to step inside the darkness
& emerge through the tears that fall
more powerfully than any Alpine chute
no pair of boots is sturdy enough for that journey
& yet you make it repeatedly for our sake and yours
we follow your hat & the sound of your walking stick
& emerge into the dawn of our own adventures
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25 April 2021
State College PA
for Abbie Barnes
a tufted titmouse
tries to get our attention
evening leaves rustle
Going Over San Augustin Pass
there’s a moment as the highway curves
when it looks like you’ll disappear
off the end of the Earth
lost in a pale blue sky from which
there is no returning
in the next moment you’re over the pass
spreading out before you is a basin so large
it’s as if the ground and sky switched places
far off in the distance
the pastel shadows of mountains
like an artist’s rendering
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26 February 2021
near Las Cruces, New Mexico
redwoods
as high as a football field is long
unlike the field they have no goal
a perfect example of practice
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10 February 2021
Lady Bird Johnson Grove
Humboldt County, CA
February night —
like static between stations:
the waves in the cove
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7 February 2021
south of Mendocino CA
Salton Sea Serenade
unknown birds sing a
Salton Sea serenade
as I squish my Crocs
through unexpected mud
later I’ll wash it off
but just for a moment
— right now —
this beach and I are one
Mardi Gras Mambo Renge Kyo!
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24 January 2021
Niland CA
Thanks to Jim Macnie for the last line.
Leave a Commentsunshine, wild horses
“you’ll for sure poop in your van”
: Ironwood Forest
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16 January 2021
Ironwood Forest National Monument
Arizona
January sun
wild birds call in the distance
on a rock in space
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15 January 2021
Ironwood Forest National Monument
Arizona
warm tea inside me:
“Let’s all go to Narnia!”
(rain drums on the roof)
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24 December 2020
State College PA