other animals

April 10, 2014

toweling off–
for a moment
a naked superhero

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naked, superhero, towel
April 8, 2014

her manicure
through plastic gloves
daffodil leaves

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daffodil, manicure, plastic gloves
April 7, 2014

summer evening
the old dog slowly digs
the earth

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digs, dog, earth, evening, summer
April 4, 2014

evening cool:
the dog finds
his favorite bone

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bone, cool, dog, evening
April 3, 2014

leaves fall
I close my eyes to hear
the crow

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crow, eyes, leaves
April 2, 2014

fine rain—
a white spider climbs
the window sill

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rain, spider, window
March 28, 2014

the dishwasher
halfway through
a dream of the ocean

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dishwasher, dream, ocean
March 27, 2014

the town’s broken clock the color of the snowstorm

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broken, clock, snow storm
March 24, 2014

edge
of the dog park–
lavender sways

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dog park, edge, lavender
March 13, 2014

just above the apartments
a handful of frozen stars
and my breath

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apartments, breath, frozen, stars
March 12, 2014

her sarcasm
lost
in the stars

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lost, sarcasm, stars
March 11, 2014

bright winter morning
in another room
the kettle calls

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bright, kettle, morning, winter
March 10, 2014

the leaves
crisply colored
magnets click

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colored, leaves, magnets
March 7, 2014

carefully lifting
the new glass bowl—
my hands on your hips

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bowl, glass, hands, hips
March 6, 2014

the teabag squeezed
till bursting—
another year older

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bursting, older, teabag, year
March 4, 2014

on opposite streets
two dogs exchange glances:
morning rain

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dogs, glances, morning, rain
March 3, 2014

under an inch of snow
the outline of a ladder

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inch, ladder, outline, snow
February 28, 2014

in leaves
before the storm
the sound of the storm

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leaves, sound, storm
February 27, 2014

ducks
come to my empty hands
winter

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ducks, empty, hands, winter
February 25, 2014

high risk of fire in my bones the dance of pine cones

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bones, fire, pine cones, risk
February 24, 2014

the name I call you at night white blossoms

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blossoms, name, night, white
February 23, 2014

the colors in a pile
of crushed cars
autumn

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autumn, colors, crushed cars
February 7, 2014

the crunch of tobiko a twenty
in the gutter

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crunch, gutter, tobiko, twenty
January 30, 2014

folds of a dress
in an old painting
the southern hills

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dress, folds, hills, painting, southern
January 29, 2014

reluctant to hyphenate the clouds of August

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August, clouds, hyphenate, reluctant
January 28, 2014

me and Shakespeare walnut shells

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Shakespeare, shells, walnut
January 25, 2014

thinking of throwing it away
I crack and fry up the full moon

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away, crack, moon
January 24, 2014

insomnia
the pure white
of David’s eyes

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eyes, insomnia
January 20, 2014

pin drop night where my wings used to be

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night, pin, wings
January 15, 2014

another summer gone
the worms
we don’t outrun

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outrun, summer, worms
January 15, 2014

the sudden way

spring peepers

it all works out

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spring peepers, sudden
January 14, 2014

the mourning doves already forgot my first dream

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dove, dream
January 13, 2014

the scent of wood fires in fog I start the day

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fires, fog, wood
January 12, 2014

one day you and I and all these flowers

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flowers
January 11, 2014

plums drop through her cursive loops sound of the sea

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cursive, loops, plums, sea
January 10, 2014

coffee stains another Earth-like planet

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coffee, planet, stain
January 9, 2014

ants furiously building days when nothing dries

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ants, building, dries
January 8, 2014

grit in the wind all my abandoned blogs

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abandoned, blogs, grit, wind
March 28, 2013

pin drop night where my wings used to be

From the latest Frogpond.

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night, wings
March 27, 2013

the sun silently deifying crumbs on the table

(First published in Modern Haiku.)

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Crumbs, modern haiku, sun, table
February 25, 2013

noses almost touching the paper as they color frozen rain

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color, frozen, noses, rain
January 31, 2013

midwinter

adding layer after layer

to my ego

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ego, layer, midwinter
January 23, 2013

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

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chimney, clouds, smoke
January 22, 2013

she whispers to the dog

as I leave the room

spring showers

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dog, showers, spring, whispers
January 21, 2013

late January

the tea

black as coffee

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coffee, january, tea
November 27, 2012

all our plans for November cold leftovers

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leftovers, november, plans
November 2, 2012

mid autumn again I pick up Anna Karenina

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anna karenina, autumn
November 1, 2012

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

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aghast, faces, luck
October 30, 2012

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

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AC, good mood, rain
October 25, 2012

season of a small loneliness the liquid grey sky

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loneliness, sky
October 19, 2012

the song of one apartment in fog a lone sparrow

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apartment, fog, song, sparrow
October 17, 2012

winter the scientific names of butterflies

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butterflies, names, winter
October 16, 2012

bare trees

a broken umbrella

from a tropical drink

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drink, trees, umbrella
October 15, 2012

first frost

just my hair on the couch

now that the dog’s gone

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couch, dog, frost, hair
October 11, 2012

the moment autumn could be spring moonflowers

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autumn, moonflowers, spring