à-côté de la mer — beside the sea

dans le jardin botanique 
parmi toutes les plantes du monde, 
je me suis retrouvé 

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Far from the Irish Sea

doubtless Dubliners 
take in stride their standing stones, 
but not I 

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One Wish

Elder weed sends up 
starry-white flowers, 
mini-Queen Anne’s lace. 
Its rhizome roots 
crowd out hapless 
coral bells and astilbe 
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That June Glow

June’s mid-day glow 
turned my daughter’s pale cheeks 
rosy as flowers 

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Together

petalled, leafed and bare, 
together through the long years 
branches twined 

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The Heart in Spring

trembling magnolias
feeling the cold wind’s touch
each petal shivers

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Under a Tree

orchestra of color 
before the first flower blooms — 
a rainbow of chairs 

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Beware the Ides of March

Be you a young Russian soldier 
doing as you’re told or 
a young Ukrainian,
castaway 
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Missing Migrators

missing migrators 
flying flocks disappeared south, 
empty nests 

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The Deep Quiet

winter sunset, 
even birds stop call-call-calling 
to look up 

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To February

our bluejay jeer-jeers 
amid newly-forming buds 
before he disappears

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Done and Dusted

cold dust,
tree branches creak and crack, 
brilliant sparkles blind 

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