October's beauty

morning sun
on the reddening dogwood
shining with dew
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torrential rains
washing away months of drought
my leaf-clogged drain
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running back uphill
the leaves I just swept
streetward
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wind chimes moving
but mute
finally, the rain
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two-dozen sips
by the robin ... even with
honeybees around
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in the silence
between passing cars, a bird
sings from a dead branch
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a dragonfly
on my chair ... beyond,
a dogfight
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balancing
on the highwire
with its bushy tail
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a black cat
toddles through my pole fence
to the place with dogs
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