Category Archives: life around us

NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 11

surrounded by scent • full of childhood memories • easter corsages Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 7 (and 5-6)

the paper is waiting • the paint blobs absorb water • I absorb the scene Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 1

don’t know the future • only know that I have to • do the right thing Continue reading

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May First, 2024

The still light of afternoon • shimmering with song, of • so many birds. I weep . . . (See more) Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 30 FIN

birds all watching while • birdfeeder’s repaired again • more patient than bears Continue reading

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