(green, white)

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A Hundred Gourds 4.2, March 2015

December 5: My true love said

if you unbuttoned me the shivering of the rain

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.*

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something white in the distance you promise me birches

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*

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only your word for it growing marigolds from seed

November 16 (Birches)

white birches
I can’t give up
exclamation points

September 17: Boundary Waters

arguing over the route —
the red squirrel scolds
our departure

northern light leaks between the birch trunks

last summer light
sunning on a log
turtle guts

after crashing into the rocks strange and beautiful mushrooms

filtering lake water
sediment collected
in my throat

into the wind she never looks like she’s trying

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I finally got some kind of ku mileage out of my canoe trip. I think this may be about the end of it, though. Unless in a few years I’m sitting around bored and a sudden memory of northern lakes inspires me …