Monthly Archives: June 2014

WPC—EXTRA, EXTRA (3)

Posted on June 15, 2014 by | 4 comments

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No need to go to town
for another week
unless for extra jars.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge—’Extra’

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WPC—MOONSTRUCK

Posted on June 15, 2014 by | 4 comments

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Clean slate—fresh faith
rising to meet daylight
when anything can happen.

 

 

5:14 a.m., May 24, 2014

 

Weekly Photo Challenge—’Extra’

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WPC—EXTRA

Posted on June 14, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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A bread and butter jar-full
on the vine
waiting for you to get home.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge—’Extra’

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SUN DOG

Posted on June 13, 2014 by | 1 comment

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Rising to another collision
of light and dark
like a rainbow.

 

 

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WOOD AND STEEL

Posted on June 12, 2014 by | 2 comments

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Keeping corrals together
is not improved
by the more nails you use.

 

 

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DRY

Posted on June 11, 2014 by | 1 comment

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THE ELEPHANT

Posted on June 10, 2014 by | 7 comments

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We are gnats on the elephant
dependent on weather
and her mastodonian nature:
a flick of an ear or a downpour.

She has taught us to be adaptable,
to stay humble, to turn tragedies
to opportunities and despite
our good luck, revel quietly

upon our small part of her dusty
hide. And she accepts us—as long as
we remain less irritating than those
on the rest of her landscape.

 

 

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OVERSPRAY

Posted on June 10, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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One hundred degree cows
come close, feed on one side,
lawn on the other.

 

 

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SUMMER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN

Posted on June 9, 2014 by | 2 comments

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Dawn bears down early,
sears flesh exposed,
blinds eye and mind

into a fuzzy daze,
fiery-white as hell
must be. We plod

slowly with heads bowed
to mantras of water
keeping the living alive.

Like cattle, we bed with
welcome breezes moving
shade to shade.

 

 

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DUST AT DAYLIGHT

Posted on June 8, 2014 by | 5 comments

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We rise to dust we stir,
greet dawn with a cigarette
to clear our lungs.

 

 

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