A Brief Paean to my Garden, occasioned by seeing a shaft of sunlight strike, after some days of constant rain

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O, exuberant pineapple!






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february poem -

ainagainr
inagainra
nagainrai
againrain
gainraina
ainrainag
inrainaga
nrainagai
rainagain



rain again



rain again



rain again

january haiku

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such wanting pulling

you towards me clouds gather

summer storms blue night

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gravel under foot

a cricket dies on my floor

we wish words were wings

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there is red desert

there is a place beyond it

sweet rain falls soft there

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swimming in Ondaatje

swimming
in Ondaatje

swaying
with Chesnutt about to

choke
in my doorway


watching
the grass open

its arms to the rain




wishing

i had thought to steal





something that smelled of you