Grafting a Rose
...Choosing the right time for grafting is important
Around mid summer is the clue the sap inside if flowing
The bloom cycle which usually is in August is another clue
Chose a scion a young stem of t...
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Categories:
cambium, garden,
Form: Free verse
Thin Skin of Life
...This world we inhabit, a giver of life
That on the surface is so rife,
Akin to a tree’s cross-section,
A thin cambium bound by natural selection.
The atmosphere the outer bark that protects
L...
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Categories:
cambium, animal, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Couplet
Sequoia
...(Poem included in the Poems of Yosemite chapbook.)
Ineffable –
Still, I write these lines
trite.
A scaffold of words
which whence removed
casts only a silence
of...
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Categories:
cambium, nature, time, tree,
Form: Free verse
The Denouement
...My heart weakened by its innumerable years
continues to flutter its plangent beats. An
ancient maple tree, its leafless naked branches calls
for me to rest beside its protective scaly bosom,
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Categories:
cambium, age, death,
Form: Free verse
Rooting For 8 To 5
...We mine the soils with our wooden picks
cutting slower than any human eye can see
digging for ancient minerals in pockets of water
to send above through a vascular cambium highway
we won't rest a...
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Categories:
cambium, nature,
Form: Verse
The Canopy and Economy
...Sun and traffic - day economy.
Six a.m. drive to plywood mill. Too tired
to be angry. Each day a step
toward death. What is being accomplished? The
small satisfactions
within each day. Book cons...
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Categories:
cambium, baby, day, history, jobs,
Form: Verse
Cosmo's Moon
...The only problem with 'Moonstruck'
is Cosmo's moon could never be so large in winter,
stand for luck.
Mid-winter sledding brought joy
snow, speed, although the kids were beautiful
none were b...
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Categories:
cambium, beauty, dream, fruit, joy,
Form: Verse
Realpolitik
...Under the tree of learning
of another life, the primitive father arrives.
Casts a spell of wisdom, between sorrow and death
with a speck of tears in circle of beings.
But a rain-soaked serpentine pat...
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Categories:
cambium, art,
Form: ABC
Realpolitik
...Under the tree of learning
of another life, the primitive father arrives.
Casts a spell of wisdom, between sorrow and death
with a speck of tears in circle of beings.
But a rain-soaked serpentine...
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Categories:
cambium, art
Form: I do not know?
Domain Inveighed
...Cambium will cheat one day
the pace of climb,
snakes will dance
peeling off the skin –
the urgency of moon
to take away the body of victim
from sunscape.
You thrive on a window
switching...
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Categories:
cambium, family
Form: I do not know?
Domain Inveighed
...Cambium will cheat one day
the pace of climb,
snakes will dance
peeling off the skin –
the urgency of moon
to take away the body of victim
from sunscape.
You thrive on a window
switching ...
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Categories:
cambium, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?