Spring means graduations, flowers, yardwork: POEMS

                       Grandson in a crape myrtle years ago, graduated from high school last week.

a passing truck

painted like a zebra

--this quirky town

(Eureka Springs, '15) 

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                                                          Coreopsis and purple jew

QUATRAIN

Did Mama ever pray

when her children drove away 

"Dear Lord, they're yours now,

please keep them in your way."?

(April '11)

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                                                    Another grandson many years ago

the only thing

you will leave 

is what you create

(Tom Padgett on Wallace Stevens. Lucidity retreat, 2004)

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                       Older son with granddaughter who graduated from high school last week.

CINQUAIN

After

yesterday's wind

and rain, today's roadside

fields of mustard brighten the gray

landscape.

(Hwy 35 to Tull, April '19)

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                                                                  Google image.

THREE DAYS' PAPERS UNREAD

Resting

from yesterday's

frustrations, noggin-bump,

kin's graduation and a long

trip home.

(5. 17. '19)

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A 6th mission trip and the poems they inspired

                                                    A collection of UMCOR shirts

gazebo

facing the bayou

--secrets

PL, 5.10.'19 in Baldwin, Louisiana

on a mission trip to UMCOR

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sugar cane

a foot high

oddly-layered clouds

PL, 2013 trip

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spikes on his hubcaps

must mean

"Keep your distance"

PL, 2013 trip

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we drive under

the helicopter

different directions

PL, 2013 trip

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the yellow one

in the long row of houses

--school on spring break

PL, 2013 trip

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                            Inside the UMCOR Depot: bolts of cloth for eventual school bags

Geretta unpacking toothpaste for health kids, UMCOR Depot, Baldwin, Louisiana, 2013

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Spring: rain, birds --poems

Watching

the cardinal

casing the area

around the suet feeder. He

flies in.

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After

the ramp's laid,

I widen the flower

bed to include adjacent lawn,

dig grass.

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the old woman

wearing socks

with sandals

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rain from the roofline

escaping

into the cellar

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Easter Monday

both our mailbox flags

are up

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a silent rain

droplets in the birdbath

the only clue

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                                                                   photo-C. Hoggard

untended

the leggy but leafing

hydrangea

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c 2019, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA