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South facing hill

0 Day 802, 03:59 Published in USA USA

South facing hill

My land is warm,
Sheltered from the winter wind.
My neighbor faces north.
He and cold are kin.

I have daffodils
In earliest spring,
While his land lies
Under snowy wing.

My fruit trees bloom
In colors, pink and

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Whiteout

0 Day 801, 03:58 Published in USA USA

Whiteout

Time to feed and water the chickens.
This was no easy task on the Manitoba prairie in the dead of winter.
Feed, of course, was no real problem. Last spring James had plowed up the 3 acres west of the willow windbreak. He planted 100

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Urybamba

2 Day 800, 03:38 Published in USA USA

Urybamba


Mist and cloud linger,
Green Mountain and high terrace
Wild Urubamba

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James and the North

0 Day 799, 03:32 Published in USA USA

James and the North

Invisibly, the jet flew northward.
The vapor trail, white against the shocking blue sky,
appeared to James to be like a floating javelin;
and his thoughts, caught by it, traveled along.
North to Chicago, Minneapolis, and

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Battersea Park

0 Day 798, 03:35 Published in USA USA

Battersea Park*


There is a captive in Battersea
Who lies behind double doors.
His body is that of flames that seeth,
With a voice of a giants’ roar.

They tell me that he’s only a fire
Fanned with a storm of air,
But I’ve seen too many

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