Tumbling russet leaf
How brief the rush of freedom
Between bough and earth
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Free-fall
Trust
Soft snores beside me
A wheaten curl of warm sleep
Outside the wind howls
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Hunger
Her silver net cast
She scurries back under eave
Lunchtime drawing near
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Willow
By a mountain lake
Naked limbs dance with the wind
Winter stole her shawl
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In Passing
At your funeral
Wisterias and silence
Even the wind dies
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Sluggish
From elsewhere to here
The stagnant crawl of a snail
Pandemic postage
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Dappled
Mist drapes the morning
Sable thread lacing through white
A lone Magpie weaves
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Secluded
lost in river-song
tears fall unnoticed, distant
a lone heron’s cry
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Plum Rain
a world of raindrops
blurring my window, mauves bleed
to wintery blues
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Kintsugi
a crafter’s love hides
inside the vase, until cracks
let sunlight shine in
days of stone 