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INNER SPACE

Posted on January 30, 2015 by | 3 comments
Purple Milkweed - May 2, 2011

Purple Milkweed – May 2, 2011

 

Alien spaceships,
purple people eaters
or just milkweed in bloom.

 

 

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USELESS ACCOUTERMENTS

Posted on January 29, 2015 by | 1 comment
Fiddleneck - April 5, 2011

Fiddleneck – April 5, 2011

 

I’d make music
if I could only trumpet
from my fiddle neck.

 

 

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SPRING 2011

Posted on January 28, 2015 by | 2 comments
Phacelia (Scorpionweed) and Lichen - May 15, 2011

Phacelia (Scorpionweed) and Lichen – May 15, 2011

 

Competing everywhere you look
grace and color
growing together.

 

 

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PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES

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Purple Chinese Flowers - April 5, 2011

Purple Chinese Flowers – April 5, 2011

 

Cleaning houses
in the high-rent district
has certain advantages.

 

 

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NASA

Posted on January 26, 2015 by | 2 comments
Wild Cumcumber, Sierra Man-root - March 10, 2013

Wild Cumcumber, Sierra Man-root – March 10, 2013

 

No need to go to outer space
to touch the stars
sparkling at our feet.

 

 

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Mizpah

Posted on January 26, 2015 by | 1 comment

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It was good to see the historic Mizpah Hotel open for business again in Tonopah, Nevada when we passed through Sunday on our way to Elko. Traffic was light across the Great Basin, as we only met 74 cars between Tonopah and Carlin, some 250 miles.

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TOGETHER

Posted on January 25, 2015 by | 5 comments
Phacelia (Scorpionweed) - May 15, 2011

Phacelia (Scorpionweed) – May 15, 2011

 

If we all lean in the same direction
maybe we can change
the world.

 

 

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CHASING SUNLIGHT

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Twining Brodeaia - May 1, 2011

Twining Brodeaia – May 1, 2011

 

Late to the party
in the thick of spring—
just chasing space and sunlight.

 

 

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INTO SPRING

Posted on January 23, 2015 by | 4 comments
Sierra Tidy Tips - May 15, 2011

Sierra Tidy Tips – May 15, 2011

 

On the edge of where I’ve been
a vaster world waits
for me to arrive.

 

 

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ON THE SEMI-ARID EDGE

Posted on January 22, 2015 by | 10 comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The big dogs are drilling deeper,
pumping the last of a million years
of underground water, each river

dammed into furrows to farm
the empty Laguna de Tache.
Sixty years ago, when red lights

stopped in every railroad town,
colorful cornucopias spilled
from billboards onto Highway 99

bragging fruit or vegetable capitals
of another world, and huge Big Oranges
squeezed juice every ten miles.

On the semi-arid edge of change,
we beg for rain and dream of floods
to take this Valley back in time.

 

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1876 Tulare County Map

Wiki: Laguna de Tache, Tulare Lake

 

 

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