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South to Solitude

Posted on June 16, 2025 by sputterpub

Selecting carefully among the foodsavailable amid voracious kids,and co-existing with some attitudesdelusional and maybe on the skids,no discontent or hot complaint intrudes.I move and sleep enough. What here forbids,forestalls, or forms will end in half a day,when I’m at home … Continue reading →

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Some Minutes Before Sunrise

Posted on June 2, 2025 by sputterpub

Inspired by the outside solar light,still on at 5 am, amid tall weeds,and knowing I’d the cart to haul, despiteagreement with the neighbors, what succeedsis topping off the compost bin with seedsand stems and leaves of rangy volunteers,and wheeling to … Continue reading →

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Home Sweet

Posted on June 1, 2025 by sputterpub

Perhaps it’s that I push myself when out,eschewing bus to walk in weighted vest,indulging family, but there’s no doubtthe place I long to be, the chosen best,is in my little house, where I’m undressedand solitary, working on a poem,reclining, reading, … Continue reading →

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Flies Sound Nervous

Posted on May 24, 2025 by sputterpub

While I detest the wasp, that either stingsor bites, for it will dine on plants or meat,and hate the sound inside that’s made by wingsof a mosquito near my bed or seat,the source that often irks, of insect things,upsetting solitude … Continue reading →

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Irrigation

Posted on May 12, 2025 by sputterpub

At half past 6 I went downstairs, and movedthe switch to “Run” to run the water here.For though the garden cannot be improved,the soil I can see is looking sere.I turn the system on this time each year,and now I’ve … Continue reading →

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Lush

Posted on May 7, 2025 by sputterpub

Abundant as the garden is right now,some pruning will be necessary soon.I love the look but thought I’d need a plowto get from gate to door this afternoon.I don’t want a machete – that’s not howto remedy this glut of … Continue reading →

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Florassortment

Posted on May 3, 2025 by sputterpub

Wisteria compressed by tarpish shade,and every year delayed by trees that stealthe sun, is budding now. And what’s displayedare blossoms in two colors. Purple’s realand white is genuine, for something madea plant bear both, or maybe set to healin time … Continue reading →

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Immaturity

Posted on April 28, 2025 by sputterpub

The buds are obviously immature,containing promises of heavy weight.Their petals tight as onion skin are sureto grow apart, send perfume toward the gate,and lose deep pink for solid yellow lureto bees and butterflies – such is their fate.Their growth is … Continue reading →

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Invincible

Posted on April 27, 2025 by sputterpub

Of course no feelings last, but I’ll confessI feel invincible today, and fortified.I weathered years of water leakage stress,and months’ intrusion that I asked inside.It’s all behind me now. There’s a recessfrom nagging worries and the bills that priedmore funds … Continue reading →

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Done & Dismantled

Posted on April 26, 2025 by sputterpub

At 4 p.m. on Thursday afternoon,I watched the man dismantling the shophe’d set up on my deck, and knew that soonthe work would be complete and he would stopall noise and interruption. I could dropthe need to dress, the obstacles … Continue reading →

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