Author: daveboyer

• the mourning doves already forgot my first dream

  January 14, 2014

  dove, dream

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• the scent of wood fires in fog I start the day

  January 13, 2014

  fires, fog, wood

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• one day you and I and all these flowers

  January 12, 2014

  flowers

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• plums drop through her cursive loops sound of the sea

  January 11, 2014

  cursive, loops, plums, sea

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• coffee stains another Earth-like planet

  January 10, 2014

  coffee, planet, stain

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• ants furiously building days when nothing dries

  January 9, 2014

  ants, building, dries

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• grit in the wind all my abandoned blogs

  January 8, 2014

  abandoned, blogs, grit, wind

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• pin drop night where my wings used to be

  From the latest Frogpond.

  March 28, 2013

  night, wings

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• the sun silently deifying crumbs on the table

  (First published in Modern Haiku.)

  March 27, 2013

  Crumbs, modern haiku, sun, table

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• noses almost touching the paper as they color frozen rain

  February 25, 2013

  color, frozen, noses, rain

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• midwinter

  adding layer after layer

  to my ego

  January 31, 2013

  ego, layer, midwinter

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• have I read this before smoke from a chimney clouds from the sky

  January 23, 2013

  chimney, clouds, smoke

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• she whispers to the dog

  as I leave the room

  spring showers

  January 22, 2013

  dog, showers, spring, whispers

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• late January

  the tea

  black as coffee

  January 21, 2013

  coffee, january, tea

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• all our plans for November cold leftovers 

  November 27, 2012

  leftovers, november, plans

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• mid autumn again I pick up Anna Karenina

  November 2, 2012

  anna karenina, autumn

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• all the faces aghast the luck I’ve had & haven’t

  November 1, 2012

  aghast, faces, luck

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• rain taps a tune on the AC the edge of a good mood

  October 30, 2012

  AC, good mood, rain

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• season of a small loneliness the liquid grey sky

  October 25, 2012

  loneliness, sky

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• the song of one apartment in fog a lone sparrow

  October 19, 2012

  apartment, fog, song, sparrow

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• winter the scientific names of butterflies

  October 17, 2012

  butterflies, names, winter

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• bare trees

  a broken umbrella

  from a tropical drink

   

  October 16, 2012

  drink, trees, umbrella

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• first frost

  just my hair on the couch

  now that the dog’s gone

  October 15, 2012

  couch, dog, frost, hair

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• the moment autumn could be spring moonflowers

  October 11, 2012

  autumn, moonflowers, spring

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• light rain

  the stray cat looks at me

  and carries on

  October 10, 2012

  cat, rain

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• rain stops the silent half of the seesaw

  October 9, 2012

  rain, seesaw, silent

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• soon we’ll leave

  soon after

  yellow leaves

  October 4, 2012

  leave, leaves, yellow

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• shake off the weight of sleep and say it yellow leaves

  September 28, 2012

  leaves, sleep

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• picking up a heavy book

  the floor no longer lava

  September 27, 2012

  book, lava

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• a little dish for pills where no moss grows

  September 26, 2012

  dish, moss, pills

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• the crows silent suddenly bare oaks

  September 25, 2012

  crows, oaks, silent

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• autumn still so green a gleaming fork in the road

  September 24, 2012

  autumn, fork, green, road

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• no one looking I still try to push the clouds

  September 21, 2012

  clouds, push

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• a patch of grey and now the whole sky grinding my teeth again

  September 20, 2012

  grey, sky, teeth

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• the weight of the pen

  as I do nothing

  autumn

  September 19, 2012

  autumn, pen, weight

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• the sound of gentle rain and bacon

  September 18, 2012

  bacon, rain

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• back from the island the air of our home

  September 17, 2012

  home, island

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• squirrels

  running away

  from everything

   

  August 31, 2012

  running, squirrels

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• bright blue of the recycling bin someone else’s Labor Day

  August 30, 2012

  labor, labor day, recycling bin

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• morning sun the silver of the spider’s night work

  August 29, 2012

  morning, night, silver, spider, sun

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• faintest wind chimes pine cones at the end of summer

  August 28, 2012

  pine cones, summer, wind chimes

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• dust in the autumn wind footprints on the moon

  August 27, 2012

  autumn, dust, footprints, moon, wind

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• the rise of mountains my golden mistake

  August 24, 2012

  mistake, mountains

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• wind beats the leaves I trust the long journey of blood

  August 23, 2012

  blood, journey, leaves, wind

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• a dog eating grass in the rain peonies droop

  August 22, 2012

  dog, grass, peonies, rain

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• dawn chorus the clicks of supplements in a tiny bowl

  August 21, 2012

  bowl, dawn chorus, supplements

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• now and then dragonflies tempt me into the sun

  August 20, 2012

  dragonflies, sun, tempt

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• humid night the star’s bad grammar wears me away

  August 19, 2012

  grammar, humid, night, stars

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• another cup of tea I didn’t taste summer clouds

  August 17, 2012

  clouds, summer, tea

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• fog in the rainy night my full moon cufflinks

  August 16, 2012

  cufflinks, fog, moon, night

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• heat wave again someone pushing me under water

  August 15, 2012

  heat, heat wave, water

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• my morning scrambled the trail a garbage truck makes

  August 14, 2012

  garbage truck, morning

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• tickle of an idea

  a goldfinch hangs

  from a sunflower

  August 13, 2012

  goldfinch, idea, sunflower

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• heavy skins that once walked these woods autumn

  August 10, 2012

  autumn, Woods

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• how our bodies work so the ocean has salt

  August 9, 2012

  bodies, ocean, salt

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