| From cedar's green feathers |
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cedar's red odor |
| From moss's cool fever |
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earthworm's glowing |
| From pitch-pine's field-taking |
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pitch-pine's black tarring |
| From the heel-worn path |
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eye-light roaming |
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| From cornfield's stalking |
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bobwhite ascending |
| From the cardinal's scarlet |
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a royalty before us |
| From persimmon & apple |
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urgent oriole feeding |
| From blue-eyed grass in shadow |
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late summer's Eden |
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| From footstep to cow path |
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mud pool & duck quack |
| From goldenrod's augur |
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winter gathers |
| From ice cracking oak limb |
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frisson & weeping |
| From beech leaf in winter |
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gold filigree forming |
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| From rosehip & goldfinch |
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thorn & bright needle |
| From storm clouds gathering |
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light darting through us |
| From April's spring torrents |
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creek's roaring persistence |
| From pond over-flowing |
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swamp's restraint ending |
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| From the word unblemished |
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robust declension |
| From honesty in bloom |
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articulate blue |
| From granite to flagstone |
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columbine freshes |
| From cat-paw & wind-blow |
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soft goes the morning |
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| From Star of Parnassus |
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tourmaline greening |
| From bluestem |
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the meadow |
| From poplar |
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the tulip |
| From each handshake taken |
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a prayer advocated |
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| From beehive |
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golden coagulate bomb |
| From bottomland quiet |
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no petulant view |
| From squash bloom |
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a shine |
| From dog sleep |
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a rumble |
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| From peril no thunder |
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only dwellings to calm |
| From muscadine's favor |
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copper infusion |
| From mountain in snow light |
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a rabbit's furred thicket |
| From everything under |
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a thistle be thine |
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| From garnet & hawkweed |
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the owl & the red-tail |
| From trout ever jumping |
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the roe of attention |
| From pecan & walnut |
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bread everlasting |
| From collard & field green |
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canny pot liquor |
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| From bluet & aster |
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concealment never |
| From wild carrot |
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the umbel of consciousness feeding |
| From myself & from strangers |
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the friend ever trenchant |
| From mystery's bedroom |
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love's tortuous wisdom |
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| From the formless |
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the formed |
| From the void |
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all-in-all |
| From the patient rose blooming |
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the perilous night |
| From dove coo at morning |
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to midday's recountal |
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| From magnolia camellia gardenia |
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thrall |
| From dancing thunder |
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a ridgepole at last |
| From solitude |
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vibrant fortitude's castle |
| From abundant forgiveness |
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compassion's great tact |
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| From whatever you do or not do |
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find a meadow |
| From the river crossing |
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an island encountered |
| From the spirit descending |
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a wine glass uplifted |
| From evening's quickening |
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harmonious rest |
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| From the secret unfolding |
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the obvious moment |
| From whirring cicada |
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velvet occasion |
| From apple forbidden |
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knowledge abounding |
| From the snake on the path |
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origin & ending |
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| From sunlight through trumpet vine |
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flame in the belly |
| From tears' shivering sorrow |
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joy reshaping |
| From veronica & chickweed |
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earth warmly responding |
| From mountain's re-greening |
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eye filled with blue |