the soft triplets
of unknown insects
traffic on the road below
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9 September 2022
State College PA
Category: Nature
there are no poems
left to write
clouds across the moon
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8 September 2022
State College PA
gray-blanketed morning
two terriers scamper
onto the stony trail
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7 September 2022
State College PA
The Song Of A Million Insects
I stood in the yard of my former wife’s house
and told you (across an ocean) that I worry
there’s no place for me in this world.
A year later I drive by that same yard
on my way to the trailhead
where I park my minivan in lieu of a life.
A million insects are singing
as the moon flirts with an appearance
from behind the smothering clouds.
There’s another minivan in the small gravel lot.
No lights showing inside, no sound.
Two minivans and a million tiny lives.
It’s a miracle to be here at all, I guess.
I have no good answer for Mary Oliver,
so I let the question hang.
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6 September 2022
State College PA
Tudek Triptych
I embrace the danger
of a bench
under the oak tree
*
the quick-step rhythm
of park trail walkers
the slow march of breath
*
in the pavilion is a child
with an air horn
I scan the skies for a meteor
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27 August 2022
State College PA
watching the storm
from the darkness
of the driver’s seat
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21 August 2022
State College PA
fuzzy brain from the drive
soundwall of insect songs
at the trailhead
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20 August 2022
State College PA
just beyond the leaves the sky
just beyond the sky
the universe
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19 August 2022
Greensboro VT
on the face
of the water
the wind’s caress
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16 August 2022
Belvidere Pond
I hiked from the rim of the gorge
to the base of the falls
there’s a baby crying
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9 August 2022
Taughannock Falls
Trumansburg NY
on a whaling voyage
under an oak’s shade
suddenly: a finch!
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4 August 2022
State College PA
a raven in the canopy
watches as I pass
each to their own thoughts
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1 August 2022
State College PA
hiked up a mountain
still
can’t see the future
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31 July 2022
State College PA
a turkey vulture
plods across the sky
but doesn’t fall
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30 July 2022
State College PA
mysterious mushroom
on the picnic table
where will you take me?
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29 July 2022
State College PA