understated by tom clausen

30 Monday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring

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another, close-up, exist, fungi, lichen, nature, photography, photos, poetry, retreat, tanka, this world, understated

it occurs to me
to retreat
from this world-
as if another world
might exist

close up by tom clausen

22 Sunday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring

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close up, contracting, fungi, haiku, lichen, nature, photography, photos, poetry, spring, thoughts, universe

the universe
of my thoughts
contracting

panna cotta by tom clausen

16 Monday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring, Wabi Sabi

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dream, fungi, haiku, lichen, masked, panna cotta, photography, photos, poetry, senryu, spring, unmasked

masked
in a dream
unmasked

carrying on by tom clausen

11 Wednesday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, spring

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answer, asks, carrying on, daughter, fungi, gravity, lichen, photography, photos, poetry, spring, surprise, tanka, woman

quite by surprise
my daughter asks me
if I’d like to be a woman
the gravity in the moment
I took to answer

in another life by tom clausen

08 Sunday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, spring

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another, fungi, haiku, lichen, life, nature, photography, photos, poetry, spring

in another life
i will have forgotten
this life…

wavelength by tom clausen

02 Monday Mar 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, winter

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fungi, gray, green, haiku, lichen, orange, photography, photos, poetry, wavelength, winter, yellow

among the gray
and the pale green lichen
an orange yellow

receptors by tom clausen

28 Saturday Feb 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, winter

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another, branch, country, fallen, fungi, haiku, lichens, Milky Way, photography, photos, poetry, winter

in another country
from a flatcar
the Milky Way

micro by tom clausen

19 Thursday Feb 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, Published Poems, winter

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better, close-up, details, do photos, fungi, haiku, lichen, micro, nature, photography, poetry, what, winter

lichen
what could we do
better

budding by tom clausen

16 Monday Feb 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, fungus, haiku, nature, paths, photos, plants, poems and photos, trees, winter

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budding, buds, fungi, haiku, lichen, photography, photos, poetry, thaw, thawing, winter

a thawing
how easy to say
what I couldn’t say

extraterrestrial by tom clausen

14 Saturday Feb 2026

Posted by Tom Clausen in americana, close up details, Dim Sum, fungus, haiku, nature, photos, poems and photos, winter

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close up, detail, dewdrop, extraterrestrial, fungi, haiku, macro, nature, notice, photography, photos, time, winter

there was a time
I might not have noticed
dewdrop

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