they held a brush
& painted until
the sky went dark
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25 July 2022
State College PA
Category: Nature
alone in the park
between rain showers
ants collaborate in the grass
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18 July 2022
Delanson, NY
summer wind shuffles
blades of grass
anywhere can be home
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3 July 2022
Tanglewood
Lenox MA
black squirrel on the trail
surfaces distant memories
of summer in Japan
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1 July 2022
Appalachian Trail
near Dalton MA
the sky is silent:
two loose feathers
on the back steps
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28 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
eastern red cedar
in a pitched battle
with the parking lot
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26 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
thirteen geese
one fisherman
& me
*
following a gull’s flight
around the edges of the lake
where is the center of the universe?
*
worm in mouth
a robin hops by; the wind
knocks over my bottle
*
moonset over the pines
the lone buoy
lists to the north
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20 June 2022
Pontoosuc Lake
Pittsfield MA
a brief morning rain
dances on the van
I follow my breath
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16 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
a rare June snowfall
through the open van door
cottonwoods
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14 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
a yellow-crowned night heron
gives me side-eye
in Shakespeare Park
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11 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
toes in the sand
eyes on the blue horizon
recent grads laugh nearby
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4 June 2022
Rye NH