Category: Garden
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Autumn prayer
Days shuttle past, lined leaves building to something not yet seen. • • • • I pray that a leaf will break open, unfurl its forever vacant essence, bless me with unbounded paths. I pray that leaves will crunch under my feet, cushion my endless striving, bless me with untrodden paths. I pray that a…
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Walk in woods
this morning I yearned to become that yellow leaf twirling down, catching an edge of the sun spinning past
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Wondrous new
O wondrous, wondrous new — stone pressed from green blue, red, gray white fragments appear richer in the sun and water, cool in my palm as I wipe sand away, study your shape, your rough edges now smooth, test your weight, wonder of your old, old start, if there was one at all or if…
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7/5
cattails carousing the pond, giant metronomes swaying in mixed currents, crisscross rhythms drumming down the afternoon sun
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This foggy rain
Standing in this foggy rain, it is reasonable, no, expected, to mark a little obscure, so let me begin to explain why poetry would have no need to be written if we all stood here right now in this foggy rain, cold dampness seeping through, its heavy cedar and pine its drizzling down the world…
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