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a challenge
Snow
a crystal touch on a baby’s face
four feet of white across a frozen land
purple moon shadows under pines
diamonds on tree limbs in the morning sun
weapons for school boys
walls in the school yard
my tracks across a field and those of a hare
a hundred telephone poles along my way to school
After deep winter’s darkness
spring lake
and summer field
acres of riches
the black earth
dust
dust
and yellow harvest
combines
tiny harvest mice
The table full:
potatoes, pumpkin, corn, beans , cabbage, strawberries, saskatoons, blue berries,
raspberries, choke cherries, pincherries, cranberries, carrots, turnips six inches across, bitter horseradish, beets.
Time for the fall supper
November snow
Waiting for spring
tiny summer orchids
brighten
my memory
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A yellow lady slipper

The light that guides one home
a single petal from a faded rose
a golden leaf
two pebbles from a distant island shore
a ring too small
a button covered with blue silk
a single pearl from a necklace
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purple pines
darken the snow
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On her birthday
in pink satin
with her new helmet
and her new scooter
my lady rides
deep rooted in the earth
laced into sky
map of generations
outliving all
cliche of truth
in a hundred languages. ]]>
Dark blue skies in the evening light
]]>prize words out of the ether
minus thought
and drift on the edge
across the final bar
that fences the horizon
only the white flag
signals trust
I hoist the blank page
and hope
there are words, and wordlings
far beyond my minding
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but she knew that was the only way
she saw the mirror
All other words
she wrote on candy wrappers
tossed into the sea

As the crone sat dreaming beside the summer sea
