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NaPoWriMo Day Three

Thought I’d slide up route 22 to visit Robert Frost today a good cool bright-blue-sky day but big red signs at the state line warned me Vermont was closed well, sort of, you know and it was too hard to … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day Two

Ended up today in the grocery store for the first time in a year. It was so much bigger than I remembered: dark ceiling, ignored arrows on floor, shelves and shelves of exotic stuff I remember the years of lingering … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo Day One

Rain again, running down the sky, •
the window, into the roots •
of still uncertain plants… Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo – Day Seventeen (hold that thought)

Yes Seventeen… you know what that means? DING DING DING it’s Haiku Day! We’ll be fine. Mostly. Yes mid-April snow is fine. I’m sure we’ll be fine. Tax day came and went without much pressure this year Uh, what is … Continue reading

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NaPoWriMo 2019 – Day Seventeen

And a very happy Haiku Day! Cool April Morning wrapped her warm arms around me and bade me listen. The park: a bluebird, romantically inclined cranes, and three mergansers. the impossible yellow-green of spring’s bursting red maple blossoms. The first … Continue reading

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