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Tag: bark

Posted on September 6, 2025August 31, 2025

Bear’s Binoculars

dropped
at the sighting
of this winter’s den

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Posted on August 19, 2025August 15, 2025

Layers

the birch sheds
her bark cocoon
revelation after revelation

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Posted on August 10, 2025August 3, 2025

Face Of The Fallen Log

surprise
at the softness
of the pine needle landing

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Posted on March 17, 2025March 12, 2025

Found

another piece
to the puzzle
of life

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Posted on November 15, 2024November 10, 2024

Bedazzling Bark

extraordinary
in the ordinary
a thing being itself

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Posted on March 18, 2024March 11, 2024

They Covered It With Flowers

discarding bark
beetles carve
a bas-relief

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Posted on December 17, 2023December 4, 2023

So Many Workers Of Joy

we come upon
the elves hat rack
Santa’s workshop must be near

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Posted on September 6, 2023August 27, 2023

The Tree’s Topography

a map of life
the bark divulging
her valleys and mountains

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Posted on June 15, 2023June 4, 2023

Tree-Side Village

the wee-est of the wee forest creatures
lived in a village on a tree
safe and snug and happy as can be

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Posted on April 21, 2023April 18, 2023

Phantom Limb

I still see
the rope swing, the wood pecker
your tender leaf buds and glorious colors of fall

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Posted on February 14, 2023February 7, 2023

Pink Birch

all across the landscape
in frills of paper bark
my favorite valentine

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Posted on January 13, 2023January 9, 2023

Made On The Maple

each texture
a distinct form of life
together creating a new universe

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Posted on December 14, 2022December 10, 2022

Affinity of Land And Sea

coral reefs on fallen logs
likenesses of
the ocean in the forest

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Posted on December 1, 2022November 28, 2022

Small And Sharp Like Puppy Teeth

the cold
has just begun
to nibble at the world

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Posted on November 28, 2022November 26, 2022

Stillness

the lichen
and the leaves
find their autumnal repose

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Posted on March 5, 2022March 4, 2022

Self Propelled

the birch’s ruffles
don’t need the wind
to flutter

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Posted on December 12, 2021December 11, 2021

Circa 1783

interior side of bark
from the Lone Pine
a mosaic of time

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Posted on August 29, 2021August 23, 2021

After The Party

forest fairies
leave behind
the tiniest table setting

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Posted on August 12, 2021August 5, 2021

Impersonations

the tree
a zebra
in green

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Posted on March 29, 2021March 28, 2021

Some Of Everything

the stillness
and the movement
the decomposing and the growing

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Posted on March 13, 2021March 9, 2021

Storing Knowledge

nature places
the wisdom of the woods
upon a mushroom shelf

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Posted on December 26, 2020December 26, 2020

Little Bird

perched on the tree
gleeful
with seed

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Posted on December 8, 2020December 6, 2020

Two Things At Once

bark like
gold leaf
a statue of a tree

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Posted on October 29, 2020October 28, 2020

A Marriage Of Maple And Birch

distinct
and yet
together

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Posted on October 9, 2020October 5, 2020

The Woodpecker


plumpness
as preparation
for winter

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Posted on June 23, 2020June 20, 2020

Rendezvous

every year they meet
at the base of the tree
their love renewed each spring

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Posted on May 25, 2020May 17, 2020

Arrival

even the leaves
came
two by two

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Posted on May 21, 2020May 17, 2020

Clouds On A Tree

they gathered on the bark
the cosmos
could be touched

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Posted on April 28, 2020April 26, 2020

The Woods


still at rest
lichen
the only green

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Posted on March 19, 2020March 18, 2020

Braile


the old tree’s message
is read
by the wind

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