Salt Marsh Ditty

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Snail sets sail
on cordgrass stalk.
Gulls squawk.

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Let Me

Heather on a Stone Wall

Let me be the shadow
under your bloom,
the stone that
lifts you,
the lichen that
breaks rock to soil.  Continue reading

By the Brambles

Pink Blooms

Groundhogs amble past brambles.
Winter torpor adds a weighty waddle
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Angel Spring

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Fresh rain dimples
Mother Ocean,
intertwining with brine
in frothy swells,  Continue reading

Signs of Spring

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snow doesn’t stick
buds burst, robins return
it’s spring

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Under the Snow

Tiny Japanese irises

Under the snow
that falls today,
are blooms that
smell like blue sky
and sunshine.

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Snow Flies

Newton Upper Falls with snowflakes flying

snow flies
tingles but doesn’t bite,
winter’s waning

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Bittersweet Blues

Stormstorm with blue house

bittersweet spring,
winter has overstayed
cold silence

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Cyclone Rain

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rain’s dragonish curves
stinging, quartz-like mask
cuts away winter

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Spring Greening

Blue scilla flowers

tiny shoots
break the brown earth,
rabbits are glad

tiny shoots of gladness
tickle my wintery skin

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Seeds in Snow

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icy snowbanks
may delay growth,
but not forever

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Strawberry Moment

Fresh Strawberries in a white colander

dusty road
farmstand strawberries
spring in my step

Notes: This was written in honor of Suzanne’s new haiku prompt site, On the Road. Continue reading