
DAILY PHOTO: Bamboo & Gnarled Tree
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sun dips behind
buildings; early on a
Winter afternoon.

Winter morn:
still waters reflect each twig
of bare trees.

The apparition of these faces in a crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.

rain tree canopy
contains city’s secrets
‘til the leaf drop.
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it?
Going to a cocktail party with no one I know in attendance. FYI —Things that would generate less anxiety include: cage-fighting, gator-wrestling, skydiving, and (admittedly with the appearance of irony) giving a speech to a large audience.
A battle-hardened phalanx with pointy sticks.

moth falls off wall,
pulls up erratically, &
struggles for altitude.




neck coiled,
egret hovers stock still
to snap up a fish.
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
The Festivus Day Airing of Grievances.
Arbor Day Eve’s Trimming of the Shrubbery.
Goat Wrangling on the Third Thursday of September.