Pushpins in the Park

Three clear anchors
Thrust into living flesh
glint in the spring light
Left to rust
Piercings,
Scars -
Sentries to events
Now forgotten


Walk in White Park, Concord, NH April 18, 2004, 12:15. 3 clear pushpins in the trunk of a tree, abandoned there.

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Cock Fight

Sweat and avarice
Were pungent under
The cloud of dust
From the pit

Arms beat in the air
Voices raised to cheer
And exhort the handlers
And their champion

The birds rose as one
And descended in a cloud
Of feathers, spikes, and bites

The yellow of the breastplate
Was stained crimson
With the mortal wounds
Of the loser.

Quiet did not come
For the barking the dogs
And their masters.

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Rock tree

Walk in the park
By the pond
A sturdy trunk
Branches hacked
By rough pruning

Yellow lichen
Moss
Speckle the skin
gnarled and beaten
Knowing sentry
Of countless tales

Close my eyes,
Touch the bark
Flash of granite
Solid and rough
Gravitas
Of the rock tree

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edited November 4, 2018

Rock tree – v2

June 1, 2004

Rock tree

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about message board tree

in White Park

Concord, NH

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Swains

Life is simple.
In my canoe.
Strokes in the water propel me forward.
I chart my course around the cove.
Stress melts away.

The paddle bites into the tawny depths.
Shafts of light illuminate the newborn waves.
Wind and wave push back.
I tack into the breeze.

Muscles turn to the task at hand.
Shoulder and forearm,
Biceps and back.
Familiar work, instinctive in time.
Left, right.
Alternating sides of the hull.
A ribbon of water streams off the blade.

A beaver dives into the cove.
We glide together toward the bridge.
He and I know the way.
Measured distance preserves the spell.

An army of turtles drop into the lake,
Escape their only defense.
Each on their own, a ballet in the water.
A slow elongated dive, glinting in
The reflected light.

Silence in my own little world.
Water, wind, muscle, motion.
Form and function as one.

Panorama of a sunset,
Purple, lilac, amber and gold.
Clouds and pine outline the sky.
Ripples on the water shimmer with the failing light.
The trill of the loon, haunting and pure.

Goldfinch, oriole, grackle join the chorus,
Bullfrog and cricket too.
Heron and osprey soar overhead.
A halo of blackflies silhouetted on the sky.
A fly kisses the surface.

On shore again.
Canoe in its place.
Life is simpler, still
After a paddle on Swains.

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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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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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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

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Raymond A. Foss

December 24, 2001, started 20:08

about John Scaringi this morning around the Christmas tree

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