Category Archives: landscape

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 17

These days some days to get through it
you have to turn it all off and
let something else grab your attention
just for some hours, an afternoon… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 16

along the driveway, in the woods
yellow daffodils here and there
a few are gifts left by the folks
who lived here before, and who died Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 13

…a stream of hungry mouths, hungry
for green, for sweetness, for that first
delicious bite of soon-summer… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11

All winter the gray brown edges
of the old hills roll and flutter… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2026 Day 7

you might be asking yourself
what does one do now while waiting
for things to fall apart today
while we are waiting to declare
just how crazy we’ve let things get Continue reading

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