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Month: October 2008

October 3, 2008 by Dave Bonta

A song sparrow sings, and suddenly it’s spring again. In the front garden, under browning leaves, the witch hazel dangles spidery blooms.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags garden, song sparrow, witch hazel
October 2, 2008 by Dave Bonta

Overcast and gusty, a day for flying leaves: those that twirl, those that circle, those that flutter, those that tumble, those that sail.

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October 1, 2008 by Dave Bonta

A pileated woodpecker hammers on a dead tree, resonant as it never was in life. I watch ground fog form and dissipate into a clear dawn sky.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fog, pileated woodpecker
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Cover of Ice Mountain with a linocut of a big ridgetop tree.

What I do after I sit on the porch. One winter and spring's daily walks distilled into short poems with linocut illustrations by Beth Adams.

Header image: detail from Paper Garden by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (used by permission)

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