Category Archives: gardens and flowers

NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 28

…learn lessons of brief white petals
see today’s hills flipping ahead. Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo 2026, Day 26

You want an ars poetica? I’ll give you ars poetic! And your little dog too and a host of golden daffodils! 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 2025 Day 22

I only know that • the act of sitting still • is a great teacher Continue reading →

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NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 14

snow by the mailbox • three feet away in the ditch • bright yellow flowers
Continue reading →

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