April 30: Jane's azalea

Stealing flowers

from the yard of a neighbor

who won't be coming home. 

April 29: Housewarming

A friend's new house--

sun shining in empty rooms,

walls waiting for paint.

 

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April 28: Sighting

Shock when the quick fox
started from the roadside,
then just a simple joy.

April 27: Found object

Spring migration.

The boy takes the dead thrush

to school in a paper bag.

 

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April 26: Spring snow

Which is more fleeting--
magnolia petals or
late April snowfall?

St. Thomas seems surprised to see snow
falling on the blooming magnolia today

April 25: Home

Pair of nuthatches
checking out the birdhouse
while I fix the back door.

April 24: Sunday Morning

On our usual walk

escorted by thrushes

up the mountainside.

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April 23: Funeral

After the funeral

we sip sweet tea.

She'd have loved that magnolia.

April 22: Pink Moon

A friend lies near death

yet still the full moon rises

still the bloodroot blooms.

 

 

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April 21: Seasonal progression

Chasing down a warbler,

distracted by a hawk...

Spring is a motion.

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April 20: Magnolia

Walking to the pub

stopped in my tracks by perfume--

flowers overhead.

 

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April 19: Choices

It takes me an hour

to choose two pots of pansies.

I want all the colors.

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April 18: Spring cleaning

Spring cleaning--

lovers' old letters thrown out

with stacks of paid bills.

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April 17: Paul's birthday

Raking last year's leaves

off tender spikes of tulips,

getting my hands dirty.

April 16: Spring night

At the end of a long drive:

chorus of peepers,

stars bright as flowers.

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April 15: Asia in Amsterdam

Got a private tour this morning of the wonderful "Asia in Amsterdam" show at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Saw some exquisite works of art, including textiles, books, paintings, ceramics, and decorative housewares, that reflected, in part, the influence of Asian arts and culture on the Netherlands during its Golden Age in the 17th century.

 

Four centuries later

Persian birds still vivid--

I want to touch them.

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April 14: Driving into spring

It doesn't seem fair.

Just three hours drive south:

flowering magnolias.

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April 13: Osprey returns

First osprey of spring

keening loudly overhead:

I'm back. Remember?

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April 12: My sister turns 40

A vivid memory:

that big sister excitement

forty years ago.

 

 

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April 11: Mayflowers

Years later I still hear

my grandmother telling me

not to pick them.

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April 10: Sunday driver

Stuck behind a Sunday driver,

Allmans playing:

Slow down. Enjoy this.

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April 9: Dueling wrens

Two wrens sing back and forth--

hard to hear in such beauty

the aggression.

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April 8: April rain

Rain pockmarks the lake

where I once swam as a child.

Tree full of blackbirds.

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April 7: Transport

Crows and shadows of crows

pass through the yard.

Some days I leave this body.

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April 6: Cold morning

below freezing
phoebe flits  where are the flies
how to stop thinking

April 5: National Poetry Month

The Time & Temperature Building in Portland flashes the time, temperature, and then two sets of 4 letters each that vary from day to day. Currently it's flashing POEM and MNTH for National Poetry Month.

above the city
POEM flashing in bright lights
labels the scene

April 4: Drooping snowdrops

After snowfall

the snowdrops look flattened.

Flock of juncos peck the lawn.

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April 3: Spring snow

Just as we began this morning's hike up Mount Battie, the snow started to fall and the wind started to howl. We three women and the dog accumulated snow as we walked quickly to keep warm against the wind. Fortunately the inclement weather didn't quiet the season's first sapsuckers and Winter Wren.

Snow falling faster.
Long trilled song of the wren
from somewhere in the woods.

April 2: All life's a stage

After the opera

still wiping tears

in the aisles of Home Depot.

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April 1: Happy hour

Leaving happy hour
after the rain's stopped.
Clock face glowing in the mist.