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Alfalfa Harvest
It is possible
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To fall asleep
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In a hay wagon
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Filled with fresh
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alfalfa, pitched onto the wag
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May 24
A Flash of Yellow
There may be many
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More or fewer
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For who knows our future
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Moments like these
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Not quite joyful
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May 22
Has This Become a Habit?
Each morning, I feel this pull
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Hello Poetry beckons a click, a sign in
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Should I read? I nag at m
1m
Apr 29
What Will Be Missed?
The iron strips are molded into a chair
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Warm from springtime sunshine
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Today, confronted, like al
1m
Apr 26
Gallery Visit
She walks among plates of beauty,
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etched with details of passion,
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molded with distortions of rea
1m
Apr 1
Shadows
Wind chimes sing a song
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Sun streams through the screens
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On the porch
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Crows cawing, wrens chirp
1m
Mar 26
Shadows
Wind chimes sing a song
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Sun streams through the screens
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On the porch
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Crows cawing, wrens chirp
1m
Mar 26
Discomfort
Foremost among life's challenges
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is living with guilt
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Self-reproach that taunts
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like a spider
1m
Mar 23
Pages Unread/Pages Unwritten
Aging arms
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splotched with purple and red
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signs of tangling
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with jagged, dead branches
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reach
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Nov 1, 2025
Another Way
Late in the evening,
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we toil over
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how to remedy
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arguments and conflicts
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Does resolution come
1m
Oct 23, 2025
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