all I want to do
is talk to you beside a
small lake in Vermont
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21 May 2021
Greensboro VT
Category: Vermont
dogs race on the beach
a boy holds his net, looks up
at his dad and smiles
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18 May 2021
Caspian Lake
Greensboro VT
gold in the sunlight
bees buzz around the flowers
everything’s in bloom
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16 May 2021
Greensboro Bend VT
West Danville, VT
it’s slightly too windy to be pleasant
but people are here anyway
a man fishes along the bank of the pond
a woman, underdressed for the gusts
sits a few paces behind him, encouraging
at the other end of the pond: two cyclists
not an inch of Spandex between them
straggly gray hair barely
corralled by tenuous ball caps
unbuttoned brown shirts blowing in the wind
an older couple eats lunch at
the only other occupied picnic table
locals, apparently, because a passing car
honks at them & they wave
a single duck takes to the air
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14 May 2021
West Danville, VT
I joined the co-op
made a haircut appointment
spring: I’m settling in
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13 May 2021
Hardwick VT
a slow morning walk
found my shovel in a post
all hail the new king
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12 May 2021
Greensboro Bend VT
fire pit
the gasoline pools in the fire pit
like dry ice in a monster movie
it calls for the match
it doesn’t always work the first time
the body needs to learn
how to open its gates
monk, poet, “conscious hermit”
I am all and none of these
face lit by a burning bridge
if a truth of so many years
can be unwritten with a cup of tea
then what else is malleable?
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11 May 2021
Greensboro Bend VT
I released a truth
into the wide universe
a friend keeps it safe
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11 May 2021
Greensboro Bend VT
as I drive across
the imaginary line
my chest says I’m home
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10 May 2021
Greensboro VT