the sky is silent:
two loose feathers
on the back steps
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28 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
Category: Haiku
eastern red cedar
in a pitched battle
with the parking lot
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26 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
the rope used to raise the flag
slams against the pole in the wind
I can’t even feign surprise anymore
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24 June 2021
Pittsfield MA
the milk jugs
under the bush
are multiplying
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22 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
the very top
of the Poet’s Seat:
below, just a town
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19 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
at the end of this line, a saxophone!
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18 June 2022
Lowell MA
(written in front of
Jack Kerouac’s birthplace)
he looked through
this missing windshield
as the wave broke over the bow
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17 June 2022
Provincetown MA
a brief morning rain
dances on the van
I follow my breath
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16 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
two milk cartons
one small pizza box
proof of life in the bushes
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15 June 2022
Pittsfield MA
the crunchy sound
of applause
on an old cassette
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14 June 2022
Pittsfield MA