on the cusp of summer
walking by the river
three hours
before the season’s return.
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‘just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
-hans christian andersen
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hunron river, ann arbor, michigan, usa – summer 2020
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furstenberg park, ann arbor, michigan, usa – june 2020
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“You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script
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cartoon credit: Mitra Farman,The New Yorker
walking with the grandies
they are mesmerized
by the carpet of tiny flowers in the grass
and sink right in.
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“life is always a rich and steady time
when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.”
-e.b. white, ‘charlotte’s web’
what a beautiful welcome
the magnolia trees gave me
their path of petals
leading me back
into my quiet town
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“you are welcome as the flowers in may.”
-charles macklin
may day
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“when april steps aside for may,
like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
fresh violets open every day:
to some new bird each hour we listen.”
-lucy larcom
this tree
so stately so old
appears to have a face
when up close
quietly watching
over those resting below
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“the tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber.
the tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
(no explanation about the alien orb)
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that moment when you are walking
‘here comes the sun’ clicks on
the sun returns
as it always eventually does
the universe in alignment.
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“truth is like the sun. you can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.”
-elvis presley
make way on the path
stepping creeping lime grows close
foot of goliath
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in honor of international haiku poem day
why not take a stab at it?
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“poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.”
-czeslaw milosz
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scio woods, ann arbor, michigan, usa – spring 2020
finding shelter today by the river
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“maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.”
-joanna coles
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