Tag Archives: summer

high summer

grass high and dry and              seeded as wheat tips too close for focus belly on the blanket beside it a bowl of blueberries, almost gone the rain pretends to come but no one cares not even the cat written july … Continue reading

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the plant reaches toward the light

marigold meant for marriage by the front door — for luck – grows leggy and strange in its pursuit of the light that falls just short of the door it blooms barely marigold but still blooms                  tiny yellow hearts at … Continue reading

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Hammond Pond Reservation, Green Line crossing

For five extra minutes you follow the path through mayapple, sarsaparilla and anxiety over a little hill and through what might be blueberry and poison ivy with beech and oak and maple rustling overhead to a pond, a flooded field … Continue reading

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Haiku: Menotomy, early autumn, cicadas, late summer

Menotomy lands orange leaves upon a single tree first sign of autumn shrill drone of insects green lawn dappled by sunlight and wind in the leaves

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Spy Pond, 103 degrees

Shimmering light reflected on the trunk and branches of a maple tree Sit still long enough and the birds come out to keep you company Thin sound of traffic across the pond Friday night, 6:30 Hot, bright, July sky cleared … Continue reading

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haiku: July, Sunday night, 10pm

after the day’s heat cool breezes under dark skies delicious relief

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Weekly gratitude practice: summer, work, Friday, clothes, love

Summer arrived in force a couple of days ago. After months of shivering under rain and clouds, I will gladly take it. In typical New England style, we moved right from the 40s-50s to the 80s. But I’ll still take … Continue reading

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August Moon Waxing

green acorns pink slips into night clouds take cover–seven pm blessed cool swim through the still-languid air sweat graces the back apples at the farmer’s market – Frances Donovan 8/19/2010

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June haiku

Laying in the grass High summer breezes, tall trees Rustle in the wind

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