Category: Nature
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Winter
open water, patches of sleet chunks, rolling skin, long stretches of ice sheets deluding us that underneath lies still — exoskeleton of gray, silver, blue, black rising and falling while breath moves under and through, amniosis seeping, small curls along the shoreline where warmth? hidden dark into the churning below, gestating secrets birthed slowly with…
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Stopping by lakefront on my way home
I always think it’s aspens here but maybe it’s cottonwoods you can’t really tell unless the seeds are falling and we are way past that now. Between the leaves flipping and knocking in the wild rush off the lake and the pounding of the archers on their targets behind you an odd space opens for…
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All that seems forever
hill rolls under concrete, skyscrapers, shops, trains, all that seems forever as I climb toward my hotel all that seems forever bends to the hill, rather than the hill bending to it even as the hill shifts its edges, shakes out its cramped spine at will so that all that seems builds its forever in…
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It is always the trees
it is always the trees I notice first perhaps because they are shorter, green in the wrong months, palm-leaved exhausted by the never-ending growth they cannot escape next, the grasses vining, matted odd outgrowths of flowers of unsettling crayola shades knock-kneed, longed-necked fowl I am transmuted towards a single of the thousand and one places,…
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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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