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Category: landscape

power plant plumes

plumes of smoke rising from behind a wooded ridge

dead broomsedge hissing
in the ridgetop wind

By Dave Bontain built environment, forest, haiku, landscapeJanuary 11, 2019January 17, 20197 Words2 Comments

foggy solstice

power pole in an old field with a foggy ridgeline behind it

the “cosmic” flavor of the cloud
from her vape

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, landscape, meadowDecember 21, 20189 WordsLeave a comment

Christmas morning

snow plastered to the sides of skinny trees and evergreens

all the trees graffitied
with fresh snow

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, landscape, meadowDecember 25, 2017December 25, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

Four months away

Full moon rising over wooded ridges.

even the full moon isn’t
where I left it

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, landscape, skySeptember 4, 20179 Words1 Comment

Bronze Age

Migratory as an eel, unstable as molten metal wavering between stone and water, I dreamed myself adrift in a forest of the dead, one more leaf returned to the forge of life, green blade that does not crumble, however fallen, in any autumn that we know.

By Dave Bontain artifacts, built environment, landscape, U.K., videosAugust 2, 201749 WordsLeave a comment

A road is a blankness,

View from above of a roa winding through the forest, glowing in the afternoon sun.

a life sentence for its strip of land. But sometimes it glows, livid as a scar.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forest, landscapeJanuary 17, 201716 WordsLeave a comment

boulder field in snow

Long limbs of trees reach out into a snow-covered boulder field or block slope on top of a mountain.

its only other crop
besides lichen

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, landscape, valleyJanuary 12, 20176 WordsLeave a comment

snow squall

frost window

the dog stops tugging
on the leash

By Dave Bontain haiku, landscapeJanuary 18, 2014December 30, 20167 WordsLeave a comment

dead milk cow

dead cow landscapetransported to the mountaintop
food for eagles

By Dave Bontain critters, haiku, landscape, meadowJanuary 6, 2012December 28, 20167 Words3 Comments

I’m that yokel

Amtrak at a private railroad crossing

staring as vacantly as I can
at your one-way glass

By Dave Bontain haiku, landscape, valleyMay 24, 2010December 28, 201610 Words1 Comment

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