Perhaps Not the Mountain
...Perhaps not the Mountain -
Perhaps even not the lone hermit, atop said mountain...
sitting as still as tea leaves, left in their jar.
Perhaps not the Mountain.
So unneedful of needs.
Of deed...
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Categories:
rookeries, mountains, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Shadows Reborn Each Morn
...Shadows detach at dusk to sneak silently away
to roost together like bats in rookeries,
hanging upside down, wrapped in black mantles, gossiping.
Each shadow reborn each morn seeks out its host...
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Categories:
rookeries, dark, life, light, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Shaking Shadows
...Shadows detach at dusk, and like bats
roost together in sinister rookeries at night,
wrapped in black mantles
hanging upside down, gossiping.
Peter Pan lost his shadow,
"do you know where they...
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Categories:
rookeries, natural disasters, nature, self,
Form: Free verse
Dusk At the Great Swamp In Early Spring
...Dusk at the Great Swamp* in early Spring
Applauding
at the curve of twilight
you’ll hear them:
tree frogs.
Bending, feigning
one way then the other,
Greek dancers:
trees.
Concentrati...
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Categories:
rookeries, nature,
Form: Free verse