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Groups of short poems.
Spring
1: Spring The Japanese maple stretches its new, maroon leaves above the golden spirea— and is witness to the lavish palette of spring, where robins hunt. 2: Turf Something is bothering me but I can't gather what it is. Listless, at odds, I approach the kitchen window only to find two deer foraging near the roses. 3: Nigiri Only a few, simple things have been more surprising than this: a small filet of blood-red tuna resting on a bed of sweetened rice. 4: Temptation Cruel April, first warm, lustrous, and heartily flowered; now cool again with a chilling wind and still lustrous: aureate dusk— song—my cat enchanted by his prey. 5: Light Tall, slender trunks of the stately ponderosa increasingly illuminate in the late April light. The oaks wear their new leaves like young girls. 6: Dogwood in an Industrial Park The sky hindered with ice crystals. A cottonwood struggling to leaf. A warm day with a cold wind—April; poppies blooming in the sidewalk cracks where hefty workmen sit at lunch. 7: Women in Spring A sky weakened with cirrus, oak leaves gorging on light. A group of cyclists pausing for water; two blondes in jackets waiting patiently on patient horses where a mail truck starts slowly down a narrow, dirt road. 8: Girls The afternoon spent watching some girls rally a ball over a net, hoping to avoid defeat. It's a tough thing to consider. One day I want to live forever and the next day I don't. back | ToC | next
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