Wednesday, February 16, 2011

February: short month; short poems

hawk eyeing the squirrel
it followed to a cypress
squirrel eyes the hawk, too

(picture by Rick McFarland,
Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
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yesterday, plucking
6-inch frozen stems with buds
now, yellow showing
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without those who care
no reason to make
snow ice cream
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cat sitting in snow
black on white
next glance, only white
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cat stalking leaves
not quite buried
by the snow
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cardinal, bluejay
bright against snow-laden gray
of bare branches
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five inches of snow
yet she bundles up and car crawls
five miles to the gym
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on the snowy heap
of garbage a handful
of wilted jonquils
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c 2011 - Pat Laster, dba lovepat press

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