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Tag: tracks

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A section of shoveled sidewalk with bird and squirrel tracks in a fresh dusting of snow
to track up my snow
mourning dove wings

By Dave Bontain built environment, critters, haikuDecember 18, 20208 WordsLeave a comment

out before dawn

fresh coyote tracks

the perfect fit of foot
to footprint

By Dave Bontain critters, forest, haikuJanuary 17, 20197 WordsLeave a comment

I was lost

View of a parking area beside a gravel road with a large, rectangular snow-free spot where a car had sat.

and didn’t know it. I had a cellphone-shaped hole in my heart.

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forestJanuary 19, 201712 WordsLeave a comment

turkeys in snow

Wild turkey tracks in thin snow, so that each track is brown against the white.

each footprint resembles
a bird in flight

By Dave Bontain critters, forest, haikuJanuary 9, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

The first people to make flutes from bones:

Sticks in the snow beside the tracks they made when blown about by the wind.

what must they have believed about music to search for it there?

By Dave Bontain epigrams and conundrums, forestJanuary 7, 201712 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

In the coming chill

View of the snow with the looping tunning of a vole visible as a darker marking.

we will all have to become subnivean.

By Dave Bontain critters, epigrams and conundrums, forestDecember 13, 2016January 1, 20177 WordsLeave a comment

drifted snow

deer tracks in drifted snow

a doe follows the bootprints
as far as she can

By Dave Bontain forest, haiku, monochromeFebruary 17, 2008December 28, 201610 Words2 Comments
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