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27 Saturday Jun 2015

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Caroline Skanne's avatarhedgerow: a journal of small poems

welcome to the latest issue of hedgerow. thanks for being here! thrilled to announce that the ‘poetry / art book reviews’ feature of the journal will be launched this coming friday. if you have had work published in hedgerow & you have a book out to shout about, do get in touch. to celebrate i’ll be giving away a signed copy of my book ‘a hundred small poems…’ register your interest by sending a message to —
hedgerowsubmissions@gmail.com & i shall pick one winner at random. thanks everyone i think this will be fun.

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low tide
wandering away
from the world’s sharp edges

Joy Reed MacVane lives on the New Hampshire seacoast and during the summer hides out on an island off the Maine coast.

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shallows by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

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beauty, fish, flowing, haiku, light, minnows, nature, photography, poetry, shallows, streams, summer, sun, water

rundown docks-
minnows schooling
around the trawler

 

the sun too in the shallows with the  minnows

the sun too
in the shallows
with the minnows

centered by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

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beauty, day lily, daylilies, details, fleeting, flowers, now, orange, photography, poetry, summer, tanka

it is love we all want
and all these ways
we go about looking for it-
how strange in my secluded spot
a stranger finds me

day lilies some have crossed the road

day lilies
some have crossed
the road

long gone by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, details, houses, Ithaca, loss, neglect, New York, peeling paint, photography, poetry, tanka, wabi sabi, windows

wondering if this is what
my parents felt,
in their own time
seeing a better past slip
ever further behind

 

no way to get there from here

no way
to get there
from here

oh deer by tom clausen

26 Friday Jun 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in deer, nature, poems and photos

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beauty, deer, fields, Finger Lakes, fleeting, haiku, look, moment, nature, New York State, now, photography, poetry, sequence, stare, summer, witness

passing through
the battlefield
now a rest area

oh deer, no need to run.. I just take photos

oh deer,
no need to run..
I just take photos

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flowing by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, creeks, design, haiku, hydro power, Ithaca, mills, olden days, past, photography, poetry, Six Mile Creek, summer

the hypnotist
describes her technique
sound of the stream

Van Natta's dam water flowing by  the old hydro plant...

Van Natta’s dam
water flowing by
the old hydro plant…

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7 up! by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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delivery truck, farms, grown over, lost and found, neglect, now, old farms, old vehicles, olden days, once upon a time, past, photography, poetry, relics, seasons, stages, summer, tanka, time, trucks, wabi sabi, weathering, woods

the wind in the trees
reminds me
that what once was
so important
just passes by

delivery truck in the good old days  permanently parked

delivery truck
in the good old days
permanently parked

abandoned farm implement by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, dreams, equipment, farm implements, farms, fields, Finger Lakes, harvester, now, peace, photography, poetry, rust, rusting, summer, threads, time, trees, witness, zen

could be I’m tired
or lost, but to close my eyes
and nod off
while the world goes on
gives me a certain peace

the way a tree will  absorb a thing

the way
a tree will absorb
a thing

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in the garden by tom clausen

25 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, fleetingness, flowers, gardens, haiku, lilies, marriage, pink, poetry, scent, senryu, senses, summer, time, witness, yards

open- hearted…
what I told my wife
all those years ago

in the yard the time has come to look  again...

in the yard
the time has come
to look again…

street corner by tom clausen

23 Tuesday Jun 2015

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haiku, hotels, Manhattan, mid town, New York City, photography, poetry, street scenes, streets, urban, urban jungle, windows

a few floors down
in another building
someone else looks out

 

hotel window- a still life below ever changing...

hotel window-
a still life below
ever changing…

drought-
ants disappearing
into cracked earth

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