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Category Archives: Garden

Pond and Brook

December 11, 2018

I leave my Pond and Brook by the bedside, with its buzzing mayflies, fin-splashed surface, amoeba-soaked beach, and head downstairs, …

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Geraniums (revised, again)

May 15, 2018

It begins with the scent of geraniums, bitter and hard, and my grandmother telling me not to touch because she …

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Buddhista 3

June 22, 2017

It is a miracle that you survive day after long day in the cold, under rain, through whining wind. Once, …

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Buddhista 2

June 18, 2017

You sit on the stump of the old willow where last stood a luxurious swaying, deep shade for hot summer …

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Buddhista 1

June 15, 2017

I will buy for you a cedar box, red, fragrant when rain falls, broad and steady, and plant it near …

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An Easter thought

April 14, 2017

It does not seem fair in all the measures of life that our heavy ways hang in expectance on these …

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Last breaths

December 17, 2016

Evergreens surround your house, a fortress wall heavy with snow. In black recesses I wade, the snow bounds off the …

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Worth staying for

December 3, 2016

Dusts of snow edge the earth, uneven lines mark sun-warmed pavers. With under-parts protected, statuary gather new relief, dying grasses …

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9/3

September 4, 2016

to be lost for this ever, to drink the moon when no one is looking, to return washed clean

8/12

August 17, 2016

Aspen leaves flip and flash waking the glass-covered wall behind; dark when my mind pauses, bright when my mind stirs. …

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