Tag: nature
member name: Lynn Doiron
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September 01, 2007 03:05 PM EDT --
After the funeral friends and strangers parted
from me like the river splits to bypass
a stand of sand and willows.
It has been so long since we fished,
except by way of dreams about Cabo . . .
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August 31, 2007 03:33 PM EDT --
On Monday the air at my open window came in uninvited
and at such a pace: not a run, not a skip, but with the sweep
of a ballroom diva gliding a fast fox-trot. I had no choice
but to name . . .
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October 15, 2007 08:26 PM EDT --
Into view from the desolate window
red bud's rotting leaves, the malnourished tree
I planted as a string, one of 12,
compensation for Arbor Day Foundation
donations of cash, this . . .
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January 07, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
The Diggers sway, lean out needled fingers
in easy forty-fives, wrench back, gray turnings
of sap greens: rain's way of backspacing
tints and tones, pixel by pixel, erased. . . .
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September 01, 2007 12:13 PM EDT --
She naps through November,
a calico feline,
back curved into the bluff
as if in an easy chair, and purrs
the stone riffles of autumn,
her tail a quiet “s” trickle
between hardpan and . . .
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January 06, 2008 08:27 PM EST --
Sad pear cools his palm;
Wasps sated by nectar wells
Cruise pear cider drifts.
Buzz of drunken stingers' wings--
Eyes following in wound eights. . . .
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January 18, 2007 09:23 PM EST --
California is a long state.
My girls, my lovely girls
live nine hours south (by car)
where avocado, orange and lemon
trees grace gardener-tended yards.
Driving north today,
homesick, so homesick
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August 28, 2007 03:49 PM EDT --
[About Me -- two word challenge week of 8/27/07]
What about the grass?
Who will water
When I’m gone?
What about the flowers?
Who will weed
Dandelions from the red
Verbenia . . .
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January 03, 2008 08:24 PM EST --
Curl it round me,
she tells the sky,
and asks, too, for a horn button,
a hole to run the button through
in this woven shrug phenomena
of air swirling her.
As fledgling . . .
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