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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