• Sunrise Drips Autumn
    Down From Clouds To Treetops and
    Across Frosted Lawns

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  • Sunshine Breaking Through
    At Day’s End Casts Flannel Light
    On Umber Fields

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  • I Have a Valet.
    He Attends Me Each Morning
    He’s a Big Red Cat.

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  • First Light and Golden
    Shadows in Tree Tops, Above
    Rising Mist and Frost

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  • Of This Golden Day
    I’ll Recall the Painted Leaves
    The Silk Breeze and You

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  • Summer Labors End
    The Sublime He Sets aside
    Godly World Making

    And the Divine They
    Seeing That it Is Good They
    Sigh a Divine Breeze

    And Sing Her Delight
    In Blue Skies and Brightest Leaves,
    Cool Nights and Warm Days

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  • All of a Sudden
    Locust Trees Shouting Fall in
    Yellow Confetti

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  • Weathered by Years, Grey
    Barn Leans on a Horizon
    Of Ripening Wheat

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  • From Glacier, Water
    Runs East, West and North. We Head
    South to Yellowstone

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  • Crossing the High Plains
    I was Unprepared for the
    Religious Training


    Cleansed in Molten Shades
    Of Summer Green, Sienna
    Grass and Golden Wheat


    I Was Ready
    When the Mountains First Appeared
    For Genuflexion

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  • Sun Silvered Blacktop
    Cleaves High Corn Below Blue Haze
    At Summer’s Far End

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  • The Short Order Cook,
    On Break, Sits by a Window,
    Stares, Rubbing His Jaw

    Morning Sunlight Falls
    In A Single Bright Shaft and
    His Stained Chef’s Whites Glow

    A Small Sacrament
    As If This Light Had Escaped
    From Some Cathedral

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  • Mid-August Morning
    Lazy Breeze Stirs Scent of Fresh
    Mowed Grass. Work? Really?!?

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  • The Dust on My Boots
    Is Grey and Powdery, As
    If Rock Turned to Ash

    All That Heat and Noise,
    Thrown Out Across a Valley
    Now Cooled and Stilled

    Three Weeks On and Still
    Those Boots Show a Memory
    Of Mt. St. Helens

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  • Q-tips and Toothpicks
    Unlocking the Memory
    Of Light in Stained Glass

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  • Pulling Back the Drapes
    I Found the Sunlight Shattering
    Against All the Leaves

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  • Crickets Calling to
    A Time Warped Dust Bowl Sunset.
    Still Summer Winds Down

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  • A Night’s Rain and Wind
    Polishes the Shadows Cast
    By Morning Sunshine

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  • Lush Late Spring Fields Draped
    On the Hills Like a Beloved
    Shawl on Bare Shoulders

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  • Tom Hennen. Rubbing
    His words on my face like a
    Baby Eating Cake

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  • Life is Wont to
    Offer Compensations He
    Said Thinking of You


  • Where the Curtains End
    The Geometry of Light
    Shows a Building’s Edge

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  • Poppies Bloom Again
    Roots Pushed Down Through Earth and Time
    Lift Up Memories

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  • Outside my Office
    Trees and Lake Call Me Awake
    In Spring Blues And Greens

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  • A Rose is Blooming
    In My Mother’s Garden of
    Beloved Children

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  • Brighter and Brighter
    As Time Burns Away
    The Dross of Memory, You Shine
    Brighter and Brighter

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  • Like the Arrival
    Of Joy, Spring Clouds Blue in the
    Full Moon and Are Gone

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  • Snow Filled Furrows and
    Bare Tree Limbs Debating Spring
    With the Singing Birds

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  • Evening Clouds Feathered
    Across the Sky in Lumened Grey,
    Lightest Rose, and Cream

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  • Chasing Comets with Davi


    Two Years of Driving
    This Road In My Mind With You
    Tonight Actually There

    Shocking Accident,
    My Presence Now, And Yours Then,
    At The Tree’s Scarred Base

    We Both Have Gone On
    But Only I Can Return
    And Wonder Why…

    Davi Dohm 1975-2011

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  • Bright White, Late Winter
    Drifts Rise on the Fog to Frost
    All the Trees’ Branches

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  • Snow Drifts Breaking Blue
    Over the Cliff’s Edge As If
    Distilled From Pure Sky

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  • Winter Winds Painted
    In the Drifts Trailing Fence Posts
    Along the Covered Fields

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  • Winter Sun Seen Through
    An Eagle’s Spread Tail Feathers
    Snow Carried Aloft

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  • Sanded Country Roads,
    Like Lost Paths in Leafless Woods,
    Revealed by the Snow

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  • Sunrise Softens Night’s
    Geometry Into My
    Neighborhood Skyline

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  • Winter’s the Season
    When Sky Holds All the Colors
    Above White and Brown

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  • Great Uncle Harry’s History


    Watching Farms and Fields,
    Forests and Sky Passing By
    Whispering Meaning

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  • Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken and Family


    Thankful For Soldiers
    And All Who Do Their Duty
    Uniformed Or Not.

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  • January Thaw
    Fog Mutes Calling Birds, Pale Sun
    I’m Left Wanting More

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  • The Art of Making
    Breakfast Before She’s Awake
    A Whispering Wisk

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  • Bare Tree Limbs, Fresh Snow
    And Apricot Sunrise Paint
    Old Lace on Blue Skies

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  • Just Before Sunrise
    The Season’s First Real Snow Sounds
    Like Nature’s Heartbeat

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  • To Three Cats, Three plates
    Chime Supper On the Tile Floor
    And They Come Running

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  • Rough Cutting Art Mats
    The Knife’s Rasping Call Scores My
    Heart Like Monks Chanting

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  • A November Sun
    Paints My Street the Color of
    Faded History

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  • Against the Rising
    Sun, Bare Tree Limbs Beneath Clouds
    Hammered in Gold-leaf

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  • Autumn’s Drama Makes
    It hard to Hold That It’s Just
    The Passage of Time


  • Past Peak, Crumbled Leaves
    Blow Across Brown Grass Mirroring
    All We’ve Lost or Held.

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  • The Autumn Rains Fall
    With a Sound like Sighing and
    The End of Summer

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