Thursday, May 27, 2004

Pitcher Plant

Field trip
On the bus
Down the road
To see science

The bog
Sucked my leg
Into the sphagnum
Florescent green
Clear almost
Like a bottle brush
Worn and bent
Or a loosestrife forest

The stagnant rich water
Below
Stole light
In its void
Heating the soup -
Caramelized consommé

Peat harvested
Branches and more caught
Layers of time
Of the former lake
Before the beaver
and the bloom

Exploring on my own
Watching the dragonflys arch and fall
Hover in the air
Grasp a switch
Move with it in the breeze

Pitcher plant
Deep living pipe
Green and red
Near fall
A pool of water
Nitrogen rich with flies
Trapped, meeting their fate
As food
For a voracious plant



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edited November 4, 2018
Pitcher Plant – v2

May 27, 2004
Pitcher Plant

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Jots

Posts, shards
of thoughts
Captured on pads, in journals
Notes in the margin,
doodles for outlines
Is that someone
I know? Scary.

Bits of jetsam
Among the studies
Unconsciousness spewing
Intruding
Grounding me
To other threads
Weaved through my day


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edited November 4, 2018
Jots – v2

May 26, 2004
Jots

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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Dry

Needles like spring rain
cascade down
onto the stiff paper
the presents around the tree
his young arm, tugging on the still cord
looking for the dead one
a shower to the floor
bare branches gaps
evergreen



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edited November 4, 2018
Dry – v2

May 25, 2004
Dry
Raymond A. Foss
December 24, 2001, started 20:08
about John Scaringi this morning around the Christmas tree


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Monday, May 24, 2004

Free Time

Campsite set
Late afternoon
Late June

Grab a friend
Get the canoe
Head up the brook
The tributary

Portage through the brush
Clearing up ahead
A well of light
Among the trees

Break into open
Unblemished pool
Circled by birch, poplar, and pine

Paddle the weeds
Thick strokes
Pole along
Scrape of reeds, rushes
Push the boughs from our way

A moose chomping ahead
Shower of stagnant water
From his mouth
Rack with molt
Wet legs
Spindles submerged

Feather paddles,
Slide forward
Easy, easy
hush

Too late -
A break for the tree line
Awkward getting out
But silent through the trees
Even with antlers




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