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how like a mockingbird
the little girl
she sings without thought

 
 
 
 

 
 

cat leapt straight up
embarrassed ~
radiator ping

rusting Ford
eyes broken ~
wild roses peep without

 

 

hear the echo
of bass drumming ~
frogs beneath the ice
 

 



   
   
  lying in honeysuckle
very happy
the horse walks around me laughing

asleep in the meadow
squirrels quarreling ~
moon fallen behind the copse

 
   
 

we knelt in vespers
on oak stools ~
punishments and laments

small bits of thyme and grace
alter the sense of it ~
mother's beef stew


 

 

 

birches and Browning
great green endings
drowning in words

   
 

 

snow to my armpits
I forgot
how small I was then
 

midsummer sun
the dragonfly sees himself
in a thousand mirrors
 

   

 

     
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