Shoreline

Year's first thunderstorm
Pantograph trains cross the cove
Inky mud flats flare

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Dragons Confronting

Last week of Winter
Crocuses and dirty snow
Dragons confronting

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Visitor

kayak berthed in reeds
warmly lit kitchen window
shore birds ignore us

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Late February

cotoneaster
twigs poke out from a snow drift;
mossy rocks are next

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Mid-February

female cardinal
head-first in the hemlock hedge
dusky winter rose

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Long Winds

yoga-breath winds surge
through treetop twigs, rooftop vents,
hedges with sparrows

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Nine Degrees F

Orion southward,
Jupiter right overhead:
black sky stings my face

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True Solstice

Lake causeway's iced in
Black island with yellow stripes
Seagulls stand, silent

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New Year

Rising sun through pines
Melts white snow on wet black bark
At least on this side

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Through a Window Pane

moving twigs ripple
like a summer road's heat waves;
fading pink clouds set

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In My Yard

deer looks up, startled
stands on tip-toes, then settles -
bang go the pot lids

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sphere

deep blue garden orb
seems to reflect night in day
how quiet it is

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pathway

pathway through the dunes
cutting beach grass guards the edge
red plastic shovel

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takeout

dumpling steam rises
old exhaust fan roars and pulls
clean, white cardboard waits

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spectacles

Summer Triangle
tacked to the blue-black heavens
which star's pointed up?

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raven

hummocky green moss
dark wall of scaly fir trunks
lichen on dead twig

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bark

wet london plane tree
splotches on top of splotches
sun's just coming out

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peat

mourning doves' gray calls
resound over centuries -
hollow pre-dawn mist

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blink

What is it that's so charming about firefly light? It's the character of the flash, a piano-like softness of the approaching glow, followed by full brightness, a gradual diminution, all in a very short space of time.

fireflies’ soft blink
from dogwood, hemlock, rosebush
patience; there’s one now !

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Photo credit hotblack morgueFile

meaning

There's a fountain I visit in another state, and I stand and watch the bubbly water globules falling like little worlds back into the water below. I think you can see this at nearly any fountain, but these liquid blobs are ponderous, the size of your two fists together. Anyway, for me it is a metaphor for meaning in life.

fountain's water globs
hang in the air like balloons
then dash into foam

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