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12.23.2022

03 Saturday Dec 2022

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Alzheimer’s, poetry, Winter

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Backyard Meditation

22 Sunday May 2022

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The contented clucks of the neighbor’s chickens mingle with a hundred different bird calls and the scrabble of squirrels playing tag up and down the massive oaks. Under the trees the dappled backyard glows green.

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Mama, May 1 2022

07 Saturday May 2022

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I feel unmoored, unhinged somehow

While others celebrate her going home 

I just keep thinking 

She might have liked one last smell of lilac, 

A little something sweet, one more song to sing. 

She was just here, touching the dog’s head,

having some tea, sitting in a restaurant,

saying my name so softly it could barely be heard.

I know she was tired. I know she’s at rest.

Still, I’d like to hold her hand, kiss her cheek another time.

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Ukraine

27 Sunday Feb 2022

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Last night I stepped out the back door 

with the dog, last time before bed. 

A small plane flew low over the backyard trees just as an ambulance

raced down the road.

Normal noises of suburbia, a businessman circling for a landing at the small airport north, somewhere an accident, heart attack, someone racing to the hospital. 

But I thought, was this what it sounds like, the enemy closing in, incursions onto sovereign soil? Would I be racing to the basement, waiting for the blast, fear clutching at my chest, hoping my family were safe? Gratitude for my safe bed, and heartbreak for all those living in terror. 💙💛

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Peaceful Afternoon

09 Sunday Jan 2022

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Eight souls in this house, five animal and three human,

No end to the noise and the pacing of the Alzheimer’s patient, the music to keep her dying brain occupied, the elderly dog who needs to pee more often than not, the cats who tear through the house after each other.

Today, though, while the sleet came down from gray January skies, they all curled up for naps except me.

Alone on the couch, no sound but the snores from the dog and the whisper of tires on wet roads,

I painted my nails, read for an hour, and sat in the silence that cleansed my brain.

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10.31.2021 October Haikus 1&2

31 Sunday Oct 2021

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autumn, fall, haiku, leaves, maple, poetry, seasons, trees

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10.30.2021 October Haiku

30 Saturday Oct 2021

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autumn, haiku, plants, seasons, vegetables

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10.28.2021 October Haiku

28 Thursday Oct 2021

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autumn, farm, haiku, leaves, maple, New York State, seasons, trees

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10.26.2021 Autumn in NY in the ‘60s.

26 Tuesday Oct 2021

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19.24.2021 October Haiku

24 Sunday Oct 2021

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autumn, Evening, fall, haiku

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