• Winter Remembered
    White Crab Apple Blossoms Drift
    Across the Sidewalk

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  • Farmsteads Scattered Like
    Promises Across Plowed Fields
    To Blurred Horizons

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  • How the Best Justice
    Recalls Sorrow, a Balance
    Regained but not Love

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  • Davi Dohm 1975-2011


    A Death in Springtime
    Un-summoned and Whispering
    Too Soon… Too soon…

    Chasing Comets with Davi – 2013

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  • Each spring, year on year,
    We’re surprised and delighted
    By every new bloom

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  • What Is It About
    Wind Riffling Open Water
    That Suggests Essence

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  • Knowing Better, But
    Still Wanting Open Water
    In Early April

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  • In Full Lizard Mode,
    Soaking up the Sun on a
    Bench in the Garden

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  • Brown Grass Peeks Through Snow
    Bare Tree Limbs Etch Deep Blue Sky
    Early Spring’s First Signs

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  • I Heard Winter’s End
    In the Night’s Passing Sigh of
    Tires on Rain Slicked Roads

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  • Knife Knock Knock Knocking
    Cutting Board, Bananas Sliced to
    Full Moons for Pancakes

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  • Even in Latest
    Winter, Weary is Hard to
    Hold In Black and White.


  • It Does Not Always
    Take a High Ledge to Set Hearts
    Racing, Heads Spinning

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  • I Was Not Quite Three
    When This Day’s Path Opened to
    My Greatest Blessing

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  • Shine On, Wisconsin,
    Call Us “Forward” to the Streets
    To Make History


  • Long Curve, Snowy Road
    Motorcycle Daydreaming
    Leaning in My Car

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  • Seven Fifteen Sharp
    Sun Rises Over the Plane’s Wing
    As if Time Were Real


  • In the Winter Woods
    White Birch Trees Wash Up Against
    Dark Oaks Like Snow Drifts

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  • Blue Night Laid Across
    The Frozen Fields Like a Shroud
    In Rising Silence

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  • Brown Bread and Thick Stew
    I Was a Happy Peasant
    In a Previous Life

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  • The Snowpack Warming
    Primordial Mist Rising
    Crocuses? Robins?

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  • Frozen to the Bone
    Sunrise Still Paints House Fronts in
    Warmest Apricot

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  • Between You and I
    An Ambiguous Forest
    A Moment of Flight

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  • A Pale Autumn Sun,
    Frosted Summer Memories
    On the Forest Floor

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  • College Ball, Home Game
    Celebrate Who We Are and
    Who We Might Become

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  • Perpetual Sunset
    Flying West Through Peach, Cream and
    Every Shade of Blue

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  • Eight Hours of Sunset
    Ends in a Gentle Landing,
    Night Sky, Stars and Rest

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  • Japanese Maple
    Crimson Offering on Autumn’s
    Brief Golden Alter

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  • Autumn’s Symmetries
    With Local Skies Reflecting
    The Far Horizons

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  • Genesis Written
    In Yesterday’s Sunset Sky
    And I am Reborn


  • Frost on Grass and Leaves
    A Pond’s Mist Quietly Cleaved
    By Morning Rowboat

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  • Doris Glick 1923-2010


    An Autumn Sunset
    Shines Like Flames in the Tree Tops
    Above Fallen Leaves

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  • Shadows of Sea Oats
    Like Reflections on a pond
    Trace the beach’s edge


  • Just another night
    Warm along the gulf coast shore
    Except… except….

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  • Worshipping sunlight
    On luminous green blossoms
    Two blocks from my house

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  • Earlie Cat Hurries In
    Warm Laundry Piled on the Bed
    Kitty Nirvana

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  • Two owls perched, clear eyed
    And quietly comfortable
    Paired as thine and thou

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  • An Autumn Evening
    The breeze whispers lullabies
    Through the changing leaves

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  • Apricot horsetail
    Clouds sweep in this September’s
    First glorious sunset

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  • Thin country highways
    Thrown like streamers on the hills
    To mark the way home.

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  • Yellow storm rising
    A blizzard of butterflies
    In middle summer

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  • Squirrels skittering
    The day awake in the trees
    Outside my window

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  • Thunderstorm landscape
    In muted grays and vibrant greens
    Rumbling as it rests

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  • The blue sky distilled,
    Dragonfly rests on granite,
    A touch like draped silk

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  • Distilling sunshine
    Into Hollyhock blossoms
    Through roots, stalks and leaves

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  • Foxglove blooms in shade
    Purpled sunlight, stirred by breeze
    A bee’s cathedral

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  • Summer’s butterflies
    Lend us the dream of wings and
    Lift our hearts aloft

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  • Listen carefully
    And the stars will whisper dreams
    In our waking ears

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  • My iron heart beats
    To the road’s white line rhythm
    Even sitting still.

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  • Sun between storm clouds
    Casts pockets of brittle light
    Beneath tumbling birds

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