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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

the centennial oak
gives its last shade
to the woodcutter


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

blanched almonds ...
the looking glasses
of her eyes


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

through the cracks
tendrils of things not said ...
winter tomb


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

tendrils
burgeon through the cracks . . .
winter tomb


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

offspring
of star-crossed lovers ...
the epitaphs


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

nesting birds, yet
the words 'at peace'
so final


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

the willow
sieving sunlight
and stillness


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

pretend shot put ...
the weight of the world
opens his head


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

water-logged worms
rise to feasting birds ...
spring downpour


 

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Category: November 2011

catching dreams
from the sound of night ...
unspoken words


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

Christus Rex ...
in our beginning
and our end


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

winter bride
stripped bare of all
but song


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

passing cloud ...
a moment's grace
just like that


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

just shadows
now on calvary ...
rugby posts


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

willow leaves
sieving rivers ...
dream debris


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

going the distance ...
a child circumnavigates
his horizons


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

a tree too
bends over backwards
before its time


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

final call . . .
he staggers into
the wind


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2011

dawn stillness ...
the spent passion
of night winds


 

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