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Winter afternoon
Memories move like shadows
Beneath a blind wet sun

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Old coyote moon
Pure light yellows the clear night
Soft as ancient bones

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Stately pelicans
Glide over tumbling surf
Ocean's lullaby

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Pale sun on wet sand
Chilly wind whistling in
Pelicans align

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Pelicans fishing
Grandfathers of the ocean
Harvesting the foam

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Butterfly stories
A thousand orange wings sing
Songs of wood and stone

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Nadir of the night
Hoot of a hidden owl
Transfiguration

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Geese heard but not seen
Wings above our fragile world
Soon they will return

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Sunshine on bare stone
Where the young river begins
Immortality

Winter mountain winds
Howl through a deserted house
I am an orphan now

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Empty moon singing
In a manzanita sky
Owls harmonize

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Buds on a bare tree
January's messengers
From another May

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Sierra sunset
The music of forever
Stuns our lowland ears

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Dark sun down early
Streetlights in the soft wet night
One black cat crouches

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Dark and silent lake
Sorrowful traveler stops
One star reflected

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Bitter opium
Green pods scream in agony
Sliced open for dope

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Cat's in from the rain
Ten pounds of gray grinning fluff
Two pounds of water

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Soft winds blowing through
A tearful heart's sweet memories
The kindness of time

Shooting star arcs down
Burning the bottomless blue
Hope waits on the shore

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Resurrected in a cloud
Mother's tired old face
Smiling sad and proud

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Owl in the moon
Yellow slit eyes bent brown beak
Do you see the tears?

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Old calico cat
Blinks her eyes, licks her whiskers
Lies down for a nap

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Solitary eye
Yellow as an old dog's tooth
Peeks over the hill

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Broken stone lion
Guards an abandoned garden
Sea salt in his eyes

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Yellow leaves-cold sky
Rustle of a small brown bird
Beneath my window

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This day fades away
Twilight twirls her pink silk skirt
Darkness moves like smoke

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On the horizon
One slow yellow eye winks shut
A new night sets sail

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