Category Archives: nature

Thistle Distance [Haiku]

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the thistle blooms:
 beautiful for a time, but 
  best known from afar.

A Time to Fly [Haiku]

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spheres of fluff
 hold strong against a breeze...
  until they don't.

Shy Sunflowers [Haiku]

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summer sun so bright
 the sunflowers take a break,
  & turn backs to light.

Long Shadow [Haiku]

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summer evening:
 long shadows climb steps
  their source won’t reach.

Spiky-Legged Spider [Haiku]

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spider works its prey;
 its movement is beautiful.
  its spikes - less so.

Janus River [Haiku]

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the river's surface,
 glassy from above, looks
  choppy from the edge.

Cooter Query [Haiku]

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cooter cranes its neck:
 impulse to know greater than
  impulse to shelter.

Landscape Scars [Haiku]

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limestone hillsides
 slough to form lasting scars
  in a treed landscape.

Green Hills [Free Verse]

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fingers of forest
 interspersed with 
  fingers of pasture --

the hidden & 
 the exposed --
 
two kinds of danger:
 being seeable &
  being unable to see.

is the mind fearful
 of being exposed
  the same as the mind fearful
   of being confined?

Stag Beetle [Haiku]

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a stag beetle
 lifts pincers in warning;
  tender flesh at feet.