open book by tom clausen

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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art, dogs, found art, love, marriage, nature, pets, photography, poetry, ponds, puppies, reflections, spring, tanka, trees, walks, water

before the new puppy

my wife got ten chickens,

before them two parakeets, two cats,

our two children and long ago

just me…

an open book
this day and everyday
ready to explore

dance by tom clausen

17 Friday Apr 2015

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art, design, nature, patterns, photography, poetry, shapes, silhouettes, spring, trees

taking off my clothes
my heart
closer…

the trees
behind the burned out
watering hole

spool by tom clausen

17 Friday Apr 2015

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art, found art, illusion, inlet, Ithaca, photography, poetry, reflections, rivers, spools, streams, tanka, water, waterline, wood

for over a decade

we’ve talked–

still you want our talk

as much as I want

the silences between

spool afloat
above and below
the waterline

abstraction by tom clausen

16 Thursday Apr 2015

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art, found art, nature, photography, poetry, reflections, spring, surfaces, surreal, tanka, water

far from home
in the car
my wife mentions in passing
the name of someone
we don’t see anymore

water colors
wavering in the breeze
of reflection…

balanced by tom clausen

13 Monday Apr 2015

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art, dams, found art, nature, photography, poetry, reservoir, Six Mile Creek, tanka, water, waterfalls

watching
the smooth flow of water
over stones . .
how few of my thoughts
are new

balanced
on the little catch dam
for now….

time by tom clausen

12 Sunday Apr 2015

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art, found art, nature, photography, poetry, symbolism, time

daylight savings-
I leave my calendar
a month behind

for every season
the time
is now….

mystic waters by tom clausen

10 Friday Apr 2015

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art, found art, imagery, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, rain, reflections, spring, tanka, trees

seeing her by chance

I once had a dream about her

years ago–

over time it has taken on

a substance of its own

with some remove
and the right angle
reflections to savor

puddle by tom clausen

09 Thursday Apr 2015

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art, dreams, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, seeing, spring, surfaces, tanka, trees, vision

she’s not here

to see it

but after breaking the stick

I perfectly fit the broken ends

back together again

*
*

the geese go where

they must go

no mind-

the spring rain drops

bouncing off me

a small puddle
holding
a large tree top

split by tom clausen

09 Thursday Apr 2015

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art, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, nature, photography, poetry, tanka, trees

my wife needs a room

of her own,

a place to close the door,

a place I never saw

in the sunnier days before

long time split
now held together
with straps

occupied by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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art, found art, nature, photography, poetry, puddles, reflections, roads, streets, trees

on the way home
more geese
on the way home

wherever
you may be
may there be beauties
about you

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