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Flora and Fauna

It’s mid-July;
The lotus plants
Burst into bloom.
Joan’s golden yarrows
Catch the eye
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Amazing! Astonishing!

I know, quite well, what the Bard meant when he
Evoked those stark images of age, death—
Those stripped, bare boughs, cold ash—diminished breath.
Time’s toll exacted from the life of me.
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Synapses

The most intense moment I’ve ever known
Was not primal sex, not my wedding day,
My first child’s birth; nor was I addled, blown
Away (though rapt) viewing my first ballet.
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