Poetry
Dove
The dove egg-sits up
top on the ledge of the porch
from my couch
Iron skillet rusting
Iron skillet rusting
In rank summer grass—
The peeling clapboard cottage
misty morning fog
misty morning fog
first light on the horizon
storefront flowers
Finches ignore
Finches ignore
the dead sparrow
in the feeder
Evening mind
evening mind
flashing O-P-E-N
at the teriyaki hut
early spring
early spring
golden poppies and purple sage
in the cemetery
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