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Category: meadow

on the morning

of my departure
leaves bordered in frost

By Dave Bontain haiku, meadowMay 9, 2017May 9, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

Internal division is in your best interests

Dried milkweed stalk at the woods' edge with empty pods turned in all directions.

if it means being always prepared for a change in the wind.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forest, meadowMarch 28, 201712 WordsLeave a comment

This coiled resistance may become a spring—

A garter snake coiled in a defensive posture in the dead grass.

the first arabesque of a new wild.

By Dave Bontain critters, epigrams and conundrums, meadowMarch 9, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

Audubon walk

A hand holding a large bird's foot, with one person's boot and another person's hand visible in the background.

admiring a pheasant’s
dismembered foot

By Dave Bontain critters, haiku, meadow, people, valleyFebruary 19, 20175 WordsLeave a comment

clouds in our airspace

Snowy landscape of woods and meadows with a cluster of white buildings in the distance under a sky dotted with cumulus clouds.

and all this immigrant snow
clinging to our land

By Dave Bontain built environment, haiku, meadowFebruary 3, 2017February 3, 20179 WordsLeave a comment

In penmanship class,

A blurry, twisted wild grape tendril in the foreground, with the snowy meadow full of straight stalks in the background.

time itself was looped, recursive, as my vision blurred and fingers cramped around the cursèd pen.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, meadowJanuary 14, 201717 Words2 Comments

The sky of my childhood

Close-up of a horizontal tree limb covered with foliose lichens and small shelf fungi, with a small house in the background.

was full of places to climb and sit.

By Dave Bontain built environment, epigrams and conundrums, meadowJanuary 4, 20178 WordsLeave a comment

Resolution

A crowd of young, helf-broken-looking black locust trees lit up against the sky.

I must never forget how exhilarating it felt to find myself briefly at the head of a mob.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forest, meadow, skyJanuary 1, 201718 WordsLeave a comment

Blue blood

A small stream flowing through the snowy edge of a meadow, reflecting the blue sky.

belongs only to those with no need for veins, like a wanderlust that starts where the highway ends.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forest, meadow, sky, waterDecember 30, 2016December 30, 201618 WordsLeave a comment

But fists are lonely

Interlaced pattern of tire tracks in the snow.

vulnerable things that can never match the strength of linked hands.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, meadowDecember 22, 2016December 30, 201611 WordsLeave a comment

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