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Tag: birch

Posted on April 30, 2022April 28, 2022

Systematic Work

the knocking
still echos
from the ground

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Posted on April 9, 2022March 31, 2022

To Be Known But Never Sold

birch wears
a barcode made
of papered pastels

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Posted on April 5, 2022March 31, 2022

Your Name Is Your Badge

a single red feather
atop your tail
announces who you are

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Posted on March 25, 2022March 22, 2022

Embraced

cradled by oak leaves
the birch branch begins
her return to earth

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Posted on March 24, 2022March 18, 2022

Approaching The Precipice Of Spring

the barns and fields
still sleep
the river is the early riser

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Posted on March 15, 2022March 13, 2022

A Home

in the protection of decay
the more humble
the more precious

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Posted on March 12, 2022March 10, 2022

Four Fields In The Morning

sleepy seed heads
sleeping in
beneath blankets of snow

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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 February 20, 2022February 17, 2022

You Are Here

the big birch
our reference point
from which to wander

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Posted on January 24, 2022January 20, 2022

Birch Family

together enduring
the winter wind’s pruning
cleaved unto each other

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Posted on October 26, 2021October 25, 2021

Splendor

the saintly birch
in her golden halo
luminous in blue

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Posted on May 29, 2021December 30, 2024

Sweet Rise

early morning
held in spring’s
caress of innocence

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Posted on May 1, 2021April 25, 2021

Conversation Between Seasons

a stand of white birch
call back
to the snow capped mountain

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Posted on April 10, 2021April 6, 2021

The Pond Opened For Song

opening ceremony
the joyful croaking chorus
of peepers peeping

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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 18, 2021March 17, 2021

Bird In Birch


beneath you
I marvel at
your tiny magnificence

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Posted on March 6, 2021March 5, 2021

Of Moss And Lichen

hints
of green
foreshadowing spring

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Posted on March 3, 2021March 1, 2021

The Two Of Us

you in the tree
me in the house
both navigating winter

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Posted on March 2, 2021February 26, 2021

Monochrome

on certain days
not even the light
offers light

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Posted on February 28, 2021February 23, 2021

February Narcissus

winter gazed
upon her own reflection
in the river

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Posted on January 1, 2021December 30, 2020

One Way To Mark Your Place In Time

with one step
we are on the other side
and a new year begins

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Posted on December 27, 2020December 25, 2020

White Shadow

wind blown snow
the storm’s
white shadow lingers

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Posted on December 20, 2020December 19, 2020

Hiding In The Woods

sticky snow
camouflages
every tree as white birch

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Posted on December 12, 2020December 8, 2020

The Four Of Them

at the edge of the clearing
a family of birch
homesteads

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Posted on November 11, 2020November 6, 2020

Apple Tree Offering

her limb
heavy with ripeness
presenting gifts

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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 July 21, 2020July 12, 2020

Another Gift Freely Given


a generous benefactor
the forest’s shade
on a hot summer day

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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 19, 2020May 17, 2020

The Fields Green

verdantly
spring takes hold
birch raise their chartreuse flag

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Posted on April 9, 2020April 8, 2020

So Thin The Veil


this grove of birch
a clutch of ghosts
the other realm is near

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