Category Archives: Poems 2014

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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WPC—ROOM

Posted on June 7, 2014 by | 27 comments

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First dawn after a rain
turkey vultures need
room to dry their feathers.

 

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

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IN THE MIDDLE OF A MIRACLE

Posted on June 6, 2014 by | 10 comments

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Of this earth and all its erosion,
its granite and baked clay slopes
alive with cycles of seed and grass,
we revel in its wet bounty
and die a little in dry hard times.

We have become the cows we raise
in time, generations of calves that stayed
to nurse another—this earth their home.
We are the strong and lucky ones
to be living in the middle of a miracle.

 

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LATELY

Posted on June 5, 2014 by | 1 comment

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I’ve little time for wonder—
warm days plod circles,
wear dust tracks in thin dry grass

we follow like cow trails
without endings,
without looking beyond them.

There is no adventure,
no endorphin rush,
no epiphany other than

one more summer
to endure, to survive
like lichen on rock.

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WPC— LIKE DEER

Posted on June 4, 2014 by | 3 comments

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We flee into the wild
when found, rushing
for the moment to forget.

 

 

WPC—’Split-Second Story’

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BEGINNING A COVEY

Posted on June 3, 2014 by | 2 comments

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It’s a big world out there.
To survive, best
we learn to stick together.

 

 

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Posted on May 28, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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Between bites, she pauses
to absorb what she sees
clear through you.

 

 

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WPC — Twist (2)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by | 2 comments

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King snake got the tree frog
and the Garter snake as well
down for dinner.

 

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weekly photo challenge—twist

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WPC — RÉSUMÉ

Posted on May 25, 2014 by | 2 comments

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Only basic employment
for two hundred years
looking for water.

 

 

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SOLID GROUND

Posted on May 24, 2014 by | 2 comments

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The nonsense of the world pulls away,
withdraws behind uneven ridgelines.
Serious crimes thump dull as distant

war drums in the valleys, but I am done
listening to love songs to consumption
and slogans trying to peddle more.

Heavy feet don’t cover the same ground
as quickly as yesterday’s forgotten
urgencies that once surged incessantly—

that drove the train well-off worn tracks,
to shuffle instead upon solid ground
that never ceases to amaze me.

 

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