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Posted on January 30, 2025January 20, 2025

Crystal Clear Quiet

day departed tenderly
a gentle blush of sky
whispering goodbye

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Posted on January 29, 2025January 20, 2025

Ice Birds

perched upon
the window screen
then rising into flight

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Posted on January 28, 2025January 20, 2025

Crackle And Crack

see the sound
that ice makes
when meeting salted macadam

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Posted on January 27, 2025January 20, 2025

A Bit Of January Thaw

the field snow thins
river ice recedes
warmer air
passing through trees

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Posted on January 26, 2025January 20, 2025

Amarylis, Amarylis

generous
benefactress
of January bloom

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Posted on January 25, 2025January 20, 2025

Ascending

snowflakes climb the trees
each limb a rung
on the ladder back to heaven

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Posted on January 24, 2025January 20, 2025

The River Tide

the frothing edge
of each wave of cold
etched in ice

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Posted on January 23, 2025January 20, 2025

Transformation

wearing a coat of white fur
the crabapple now
a Zao snow monster

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Posted on January 22, 2025January 20, 2025

Sunset In New Snow

the world
freshly brightened
with a lacquer of cold

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Posted on January 21, 2025January 15, 2025

Secrets

a morse code of snow
dots and dashes
flying past the pine

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Posted on January 20, 2025January 15, 2025

Blue Barn Door

open wide
like the sky
welcome in the sun

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Posted on January 19, 2025January 11, 2025

Between

looking through the ice
cross the liminal space
to feel the presence of birch

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Posted on January 18, 2025January 11, 2025

Water Open And Closed

the river keeps
one eye open
watching trees

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Posted on January 17, 2025January 11, 2025

Wildflower Storm

a flurry
of flowers
the petals accumulating

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Posted on January 16, 2025January 11, 2025

The River Curves

motionless
the river wanders
the future and the past

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Posted on January 15, 2025January 11, 2025

Boutonnière

the night’s lapel
embellished with
a frosty flower

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Posted on January 14, 2025January 11, 2025

Cold Trees

even the trees
shiver when
it gets below zero

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Posted on January 13, 2025January 8, 2025

Always Living

despite the lows of cold
the moss and Sempervivum
the brave and hearty Heuchera
keep on and on

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Posted on January 12, 2025January 8, 2025

The Day Retires

the day packed away
in night’s
dark briefcase

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Posted on January 11, 2025January 8, 2025

Winter’s Butterflies

winged maple seeds
perched on the branch
fluttering in the wind

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Posted on January 10, 2025January 8, 2025

Letting Go

the river knows
no need to cling
and offers welcome
to each new way of being

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Posted on January 9, 2025January 1, 2025

Smiled Upon

winter holds tight to the shadows
but OH the sun, the sun
the saving sun

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Posted on January 8, 2025January 1, 2025

Transfigurations

a shell without its beach
perhaps part caterpillar part cocoon
or just the hosta leaf
fossilized

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Posted on January 7, 2025January 1, 2025

Bare Ground Blue Sky

opportunity taken
the farmer feeds
his fallow field

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Posted on January 6, 2025January 1, 2025

Counterclockwise The Weather Turns

wind and rain
have rinsed my world
autumn’s palette now returned

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Posted on January 5, 2025January 1, 2025

Blue Sunset

dark clouds
blue with water
preparing to erase the snow

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Posted on January 4, 2025January 1, 2025

Patience And Perseverance

amongst the snow
a dreaming blossom bud
and hope made manifest

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Posted on January 3, 2025January 1, 2025

Alone Together

room for thoughts
to wander
between them

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Posted on January 2, 2025January 1, 2025

Beneath The Watch Of Elders

young pine
in the January snow
so many more years to grow

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Posted on January 1, 2025December 29, 2024

Dinner Waits

the crabapple tree
set like a table
for the cardinal and cedar waxwings

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