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knot art by tom clausen

10 Friday Jul 2015

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art, design, eyes, found art, Ithaca, knots, pattern, photography, plywood, poetry, seeing, senryu, summer, windows, wood, wood grain

knotty pine cabinet
above the toilet
two knots look back
the window boarded up... knots looking out

the window
boarded up…
knots looking out

balancing act by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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art, creeks, found art, Ithaca, New York, photography, poetry, rivers, Six Mile Creek, stone work, stones, streams, summer, tanka, towers, trails, walking, witness

wanting my old life
when I wanted
my present life
stirring the soup she made
as a cold rain falls outside

mid-stream the stones are in a balancing act

mid-stream
the stones are in
a balancing act

droplet series by tom clausen

09 Thursday Jul 2015

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art, Finger Lakes, fleetingness, found art, fragility, haiku, Ithaca, leaves, light, magnification, nature, New York, now, paths, photography, poetry, rain, Six Mile Creek, summer, temporal, trails, zen

another fallen leaf
magnifying my sense
being here now

the rain  keeps falling on itself

the rain
keeps falling
on itself

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chipmunk gaze by tom clausen

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

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haiku, Ithaca, nature, New York, photography, poetry, summer, walking, witness

left and right
he follows the way
of his kicked stone

so thoughtful a look  before scampering away

so thoughtful
a look
before scampering away

shade by tom clausen

07 Tuesday Jul 2015

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fields, Finger Lakes, haiku, Ithaca, light, nature, New York, now, photography, poetry, shade, space, summer, trees, zen

garden walk-
she checks herself
in the pond
alone in the field a tree with its shade

alone
in the field
a tree with its shade

gall works x 7 by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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art, details, dried art, fields, Finger Lakes, galls, goldenrods, Ithaca, nature, New York State, patterns, photography, poetry, seasons, stalks, summer, tanka, weeds

While planting bulbs
my wife unearths
a childhood cap gun of mine
I hold it
trying to grasp back then

 

galls... the very gall of them!

galls…
the very gall
of them!

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holsteins by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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Finger Lakes, grazing, holstein, Ithaca, nature, New York State, pasture, photography, poetry, summer

an exchange
by the roadside
without words…

holsteins in their perfection moo

holsteins
in their perfection
moo

red eft by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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Finger Lakes, fragility, Ithaca, journey, life, migration, New York State, newts, photography, poetry, red eft, roads, salamanders, summer, wetlands

up out of the valley
across roads
a perilous journey

red eft on the move  to become a newt

red eft
on the move
to become a newt

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look by tom clausen

05 Sunday Jul 2015

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Finger Lakes, focus, haiku, Ithaca, llamas, looking, nature, New York, pastures, photography, poetry, summer, watching, witness

out to pasture
grazing and watching
what goes by…

from Peru to upstate New York a llama's look

from Peru
to upstate New York
a llama’s look

sweet pea by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

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flower, gardens, haiku, Ithaca, observation, photography, pink, poetry, rain, summer, sweet pea, walking, wild, wildflowers

most of the rain
not falling
on me

after the downpour sweet pea refreshed

after the downpour
sweet pea
refreshed

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