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WPC—EXTRA

Posted on June 14, 2014 by John | Leave a comment

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

Weekly Photo Challenge—’Extra’

SUN DOG

Posted on June 13, 2014 by John | 1 comment

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

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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged dawn, haiku, photographs, poetry, Sulphur Peak, sundog

WOOD AND STEEL

Posted on June 12, 2014 by John | 2 comments

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

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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged Greasy Creek, haiku, photographs, poetry

THE ELEPHANT

Posted on June 10, 2014 by John | 7 comments

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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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged Greasy corrals, Greasy Creek, photographs, poetry, rain, Sulphur Peak, weather

OVERSPRAY

Posted on June 10, 2014 by John | Leave a comment

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

SUMMER IN THE SAN JOAQUIN

Posted on June 9, 2014 by John | 2 comments

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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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged Dry Creek, photographs, poetry, San Joaquin Valley, Sulphur Peak, summer, sunrise, weather

DUST AT DAYLIGHT

Posted on June 8, 2014 by John | 5 comments

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

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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged cigarettes, Drought, dust, haiku, photographs, poetry

WPC—ROOM

Posted on June 7, 2014 by John | 27 comments

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

Weekly Photo Challenge: Room

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Posted in Photographs, Poems 2014

Tagged haiku, photographs, poetry, rain, turkey vulture, weekly-photo-challenge

IN THE MIDDLE OF A MIRACLE

Posted on June 6, 2014 by John | 10 comments

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.