Afternoon Nap - Fair Oaks
Chenille fiber line the ballerina’s form, She pirouettes as I snuggle warm; Humming from behind the propped zenith kit, White noise,...
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danakirstine
- Jul 18, 2023
- 1 min
Be still fu-baby
Tho lightning flashes and thunder does howl Midnight rabid emerald whirlwinds growl And barking cerulean blue tears fall Be still...
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danakirstine
- Jul 18, 2023
- 1 min
Canadian Smoke (the Fibonacci)
Pink mist spawned from north crimson glowing – transient mirroring far-off milky way - dense
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
The Paw Paw Tree
An old Pawpaw tree stands below the slope overlooking Owsley revivor. Here it waits for morning sun to glisten over eastern cedar roof...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 1 min
Donkey Basketball (the Rondine)
Keep from falling – dribble, shot, score, and pet burro bareback balancing act barrage straw, nips, opponate, and manuer dodge played to...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
Hoarding
The last time we visited your home, before the retirement center where you finally slowed to card games and singing in the halls, we...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 1 min
Battlefield Highway Morning Mist
Morning ray, ethereal mist, first-light prayer Softly blanket the newly cut meadows; Baby-pink whispers of daybreak shadow Shear-lace...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
Nimbus Fish Hatchery – Fair Oaks, California
The trails I walk along the American River Parkway adjacent to the peaceful riparian zone of the Nimbus Hatchery where young Chinook...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 1 min
The Weaver and the Mockingbird
In the garden lives the golden weaving spider, hunkered low among leafy Hosta, hunkered with amplified caution, hiding some place darker,...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 1 min
Hand-Me-Down Tartan Memory
The dress is so far from fitting me now. Partly because of the care I was allowed but also, we all grow up. Comforting colored threads of...
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danakirstine
- Jul 13, 2023
- 2 min
Six Decades In - (the Ghazal)
I was introduced to the world at a time of fears and war. We ached and mourned with Jackie, then Coretta, through tears and war. Heroes...
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danakirstine
- Jul 12, 2023
- 1 min
I am....
I am dismantled debris – scattered pieces of waste and remains flung carelessly from the point of generation. I am the sludge of...
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danakirstine
- Jul 11, 2023
- 8 min
Hurrican Wrangling - Surfing in the Storm
Looking back now I should have cherished the call to the shore more but at the time I was just too stressed and high strung for that....
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