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martin May 2012
play me love's music
harmonise our hearts'  tempo
practice every day
martin May 2012
Shoot at us and we'll be gone                                                             ­                Minnesota     2921
We'll never be your friend                                                           ­                        Idaho               705
But now the rage has gone away                                                             ­          Wisconsin        690
We're coming back again                                                            ­                       Montana         566
                                                             ­                                                                 ­Wyoming        343
Just a lonesome wanderer loping through the night                                         N.Carolina      120
Or an alpha leader followed by his pack                                                           Arizona              29
We're claiming back what's ours by right                                                         California             1
The wolves are coming back!                                                            ­                  Alaska         10000
                                                           ­                                                                 ­   Canada         52000   (2011 numbers)
Persecuted for centuries, in 1915 Congress sanctioned a wolf eradication campaign, which 50 years later was almost complete, northern Michigan and Minnesota the last outposts of a population once numbering 400 000.
A similar retreat took place in Europe but now Spain has 2000, Italy and Poland 1000 each, Sweden 220 and there are 200 in the French Alps, spreading north through France.
martin May 2012
sap rising, buds swell
pink flush showing on may bush
blossom confetti
martin May 2012
don't pluck my heart strings
they only play sad music
      anyway it hurts
martin May 2012
voices everywhere
hedges like the internet
 tweeting all the time
martin May 2012
build our nest with love
line it with forget-me-nots
stay all summer long
While sipping coffee, sitting in my truck, I watched a pair of Goldfinches  (King Harry is their Suffolk name). To my astonishment, one was picking forget-me-not flowers, packing them into its beak and flying away, presumably to use as nesting material.
martin May 2012
broken eggs on lawn
what villain so dastardly?
 magpie looking fat
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