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deer family new life by tom clausen

09 Friday Jun 2023

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once in a lifetime
a deer from my deer family
jumps the fence
into our back yard
and gives birth to twins

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this happened very unexpectedly yesterday on the smokiest-worst-air quality day in modern history here…
I had seen Pasha in our back yard when I first got up and went out to gently try to coax her to go back out through our back gate but she was not interested and from lying down in one part of our garden she did get up and move to another more secluded spot where she lay back down. I left the gate open and went back inside assuming she’d find her way out. I wondered if maybe the extreme haze in the air had inspired her leap into our fenced back yard and was not sure why she had chosen to do this as she had never done this before in the four years I’ve known her. ( Pasha was one of Bessie’s twins born in 2019 ) She has always stayed close to Bessie even when Bessie tried hard to discourage her! Last year Pasha had her first fawns and now she has had her second pair. I discovered she had given birth when I went out with our compost bucket and saw Pasha standing near our shed and there , much to my surprise, were these two adorable tiny fawns testing out their little deer legs! 6-07-23

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26 Friday May 2023

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sidewalk sale-
wind twists a lifetime
guarantee tag

Woodnotes

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taking me back…
water laps gently
at the shore

Dim Sum


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our turn
to stand here-
falls overlook

Frogpond


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mountain brook-
       the indistinguishable spring
                     of voices

Mayfly


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in the garden
sitting alone-
who i am now

Dim Sum


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         in the dark
through the window light
     my wife and child

Modern Haiku


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daybreak-
the spider centered
in its web

Dim Sum


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long wait alone
in the parking lot…
a dog in the next car

Raw Nervz


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on the way home
   more geese
      on the way home

Frogpond


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returning the water
      from the vase
               to the flower garden

Dim Sum


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letting her 
walk all over me
– ladybug

bottle rockets


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potluck luncheon
a yellow jacket cleans
its antennae

Dim Sum


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the cat’s eyes
so wide…
for a gnat

HN 2001 Members Anthology


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undefended:
in the cold raiN
their snow fort

Frogpond



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the way
rain takes
the mountain

Frogpond



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Ducks riding the lake
brushed rough by wind;
pilings rimed with ice

Modern Haiku 1988


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mountaintop:
giving back
each breath

Brussels Sprout   v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994


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lunch alone
without a book
i read my mind

Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.1  Jan. 1994



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rushing
 to the zendo to sit
still

Brussels Sprout  v.XI : no.2  May 1994


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daybreak-
rubber duck alone
in the empty tub

Haiku Quarterly  summer 1994


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on the trail again…
walking deeper
into myself

Frogpond  summer 1994


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autumn moonlight
folded in
the clothes on the floor

Modern Haiku   summer 1994


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the way
the light bulb rests
in the rest of the trash

Modern Haiku fall 1994


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day break-
from the bread truck’s roof
frost swirls

Woodnotes  #25  


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one tree
one bird, one song
the dusk

Frogpond  1995


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x-ray room
they remove
her crucifix

Modern Haiku  fall 1995


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alone in the waiting room
checking the plant
for reality

Woodnotes  1996



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