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Tag Archives: nature
pond walk – September 10
9.10 elongated feather neck stretching skyward, wonderfully prehistoric amidst grasses burst tall on shore and pond. drought has lifted their length above the receding waters flinging new green swaths across the tepid waters. rowings of ducks line out, mother to … Continue reading
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Tagged animal knowledge, beauty, creation, egrets, nature, peacefulness, perspective, ponds, waterfowl
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racoons – September 5
9.5 the racoon shakes the bird feeder until it falls to the ground the homeowner rails and grumbles and takes it down the birds miss their seed all gone and done and God watches as we humans … Continue reading
blip, he moved – August 24
8.24 blip, he moved. or she. tiny frog in the maw of my mower. his life is in your hands the voice said. so I move carefully. it’s only a lawn, weeds scruff, things to be taken down … Continue reading
I do the walk for me – August 15
8.15 I do the walk for me, that’s what I tell the dog anyway. the slow walk tonite, feeling each step, bounce, lurch. I do the walk to feel my body, not natural for me, a head person who … Continue reading
measured steps – July 17
7.17 flat heat, dry waterfall revealing the bones of trees, twigs, mud hen nothings at the bottom of its pond. mid July leaves fall to the century mark temps, while spare weeds scrabble across dry garden beds and … Continue reading
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Tagged Air conditioning, dissonance, distance, heat, home, July, Measurement, memory, nature, separation, summer
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devolution – July 1
7.1 Crog like cave. Cave keep Crog warm cave keep water and wind off Crog when cold, and cool when hot. Cave let Crog save meat, keep woman ward off animal. Feel safe. And so I sit in my … Continue reading
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Tagged alienation, ancestors, camping, canoeing, Cave, caveman, devolution, estrangement, Evolution, loons, nature, Outdoors, roots, suburbia
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subduing nature – June 24
6.24 walking around the block again, dog at my side, with a plastic baggie for when he decides to let nature take its course on someone’s lawn. We all live in proximity that no longer allows for nature to do … Continue reading
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Tagged dog, nature, perfection, perspective, persumption, Pets, resistance, unnature
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when I turn off the radio – June 23
6.23 when I turn off the radio and watch the switch grass blow across the yard, hiding the pond beyond it from my sight and watch a small squirrel move from right to left across gaps of tree limb that … Continue reading
when trees fall- June 11
6.11 when trees fall is there screaming when grass dies is there moaning or are we the only ones to complain ——————
my garden exists – June 2
6.2 my garden exists for the moment I am working it, beyond which it belongs to itself. roots wriggle, dropped in seeds sprout or decay, all without me. what comes next is not really mine to claim then, I played … Continue reading
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Tagged appreciation, automony, creation, Garden, gardening, hoeing, nature, partners, plants, self, Soil, spirituality
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