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was friendly, professional,
and recorded.

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Recalculation

Most of the summer’s bedrooms now are empty;
stealthy ocher claims the neighbour trees:
evening’s amber skies complete the picture
in silence quite impossible before.

The screen doors used to slam too loud too often;
now insufficient are the outs and and ins:
the toys that filled all passage now are silent, Continue reading

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echoes

The wood planks of the dock
bask in the warm autumn sun.
The water drifting by this lee shore
is lazy, glassy calm.

A willow leaf flutters down,
tips onto the stillness,
sends a ripple that spreads,
diminishing, leaving.

Crashing upon me like Continue reading

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