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September 29th 2016

September 29, 2016 By in A Haiku Year, Bottlecap, Haibun, Haiku, Poetry Tags: , , , Leave a comment
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geese
····cry southward—the last stars appearing
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The corn stalks are turning and the wild artichokes are in full bloom. Our apple tree is sugared up and filled with birds. There’s much ado this time of year. Almost time to bring the scarecrows in.
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Goings on in Vermont

September 29, 2016 By in Autumn, Photos, Poetry, Vermont Tags: , , Leave a comment
1920-red-berries
1920-ox-eye-daisies
1920-wildflowers-more-purple
1920-wild-artichoke
1920-purple-asters
1920-wildflowers-purple
1920-apples
1920-honeysuckle
1920-white-berries
1920-vermont-afternoon
1920-leafpile
1920-cider-press

Some goings on in Vermont. All the images are 1920×1280 so, if you’re inclined, you can use them as a desktop image. Some of the last wildflowers, a crate of apples ready for the apple cider press, a leaf pile, and the mid-afternoon sun through the windows.

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September 28th 2016

September 28, 2016 By in A Haiku Year, Autumn, Bottlecap, Haibun, Haiku, Poetry Tags: , , , Leave a comment
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autumn
····night—a wheelbarrow at the milky way’s
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Thinking about this haiku the morning after writing it.
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I had originally written—  under/the milky way—a wheelbarrow at the field’s/edge —but was dissatisfied. I sat with it until midnight. I wanted to capture something of the mystical beauty and loneliness of the wheelbarrow. To write that something is under the milky way is redundant since there’s nothing that isn’t under the milky way, but by that point I was exhausted.
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A night’s sleep and what I couldn’t reach the night before was a simple solution, move the wheelbarrow to the  edge of the milky way and the field or yard is implied, but also the scale and “alone-ness” of the moment.
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September 27th 2016

September 27, 2016 By in A Haiku Year, Autumn, Bottlecap, Haibun, Haiku, Poetry Tags: , , , , Leave a comment
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only
····pumpkins left—the moon rolls off the scarecrow’s
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Seems I was only just writing my last haiku for August. October, the most  transformative of New England’s months, will soon begin. I know I wrote that September is my favorite month but maybe, in truth, it’s October.
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September 26th 2016

September 26, 2016 By in A Haiku Year, Autumn, Bottlecap, Haibun, Haiku, Poetry Tags: , , , Leave a comment
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cloud
····and mountains all one color—a cold autumn
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I hear the mice working to get into the house, always this time of year. Our cat is lean, a summer spent outside, a catches mice each day. Still, they’re in the walls but seldom survive into winter.
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