Spring Invading

ice shards
on the floor
February blooms

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from Death of a Teacher by Carol Ann Duffy

The big trees outside are into their poker game again,
shuffling and dealing, turning, folding, their leaves

drifting down to the lawn, floating away, ace high,
on a breeze. You died yesterday.

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brown box
of brown boxes
from beige box

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from The Waves by Virginia Woolf 📚

The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on the horizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface, following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually.

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based on
the word
of the likes
of him?
forced air

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from scattering sound, not yet audible, I am on pins and needles by Michael Blouin

no poet spoke, and silence crashed

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curio city

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after the rain
more than water
fallen

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erratic tree bark
to another branch

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taking the stand
orange banded trees
death row

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by rural italics

early evening
long blue shadows
of snow drifts

dusting off
an old jazz record

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disastrophe

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from an anonymous Kleroteria entry

A crafty rabbit has three burrows

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sun’s angle
through long night
midwinter

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let’s talk about [memory]
[rose gold] age
of aquarium drinking