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Woodpecker Blues-senryu series

beak’s pecking away chiselling wood from my side hole reveals insides is it work or play pecker’s constant yammering or to stir me up plug up scab or slug the critter who’s fleshing out a home for squirrels i’m feeling squirrely running on a hamster wheel pounding on the walls Elmer Fudd my spouse guns blazing looking for fight wily rabbit laughs morning to midnight tiptoe open door slowly feels swoosh of bb’s No birds were hurt in the writing of this poem ;)

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Date: 10/18/2024 2:01:00 PM
Oh!! Thanks goodness, right there at the end I thought maybe they were dead. LOL..My dog is on a diet because she had a bout with pancreatitis, and she caught a bird in the Pampas grass and was swallowing it whole while my husband was trying to get it away from her. He said blood was still oozing out of the bird. Sara k
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/18/2024 8:05:00 PM
So sorry to hear about your dog. Hope he feels better. Crazy story!
Date: 10/17/2024 1:26:00 PM
I love this, Kim- your thoughts and the metaphors to describe those thoughts are simply...amazing. <3 :):)
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Kim Rodrigues
Date: 10/17/2024 1:32:00 PM
I so appreciate! Hugs, Paige!

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