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wheel by tom clausen

06 Monday Jul 2015

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details, farm equipment, grinding stone, lichens, patterns, photography, poetry, relics, rings, rust, rusting, sharpening stone, stone, summer, tanka, wheel

showing my daughter
my childhood ‘fish’ jackknife
she promptly says:
“i’ll put that in your grave
when you die”

 

the wheel no longer turning but still a wheel

the wheel
no longer turning
but still a wheel

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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hosta by tom clausen

19 Friday Jun 2015

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beauty, design, details, gardens, green, haiku, hosta, leaves, patterns, photography, Plantations, plantings, plants, poetry, summer, witness

hunting four leaf clovers
students discuss
their childhoods

hosta- I linger in the moment before moving on...

hosta-
I linger in the moment
before moving on…

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window pane by tom clausen

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, found art, glass, Massachusetts, Northfield, old trucks, patterns, poetry, summer, tanka, trucks, vehicles, window pane

blowing across
the plowed field
a sheet of newspaper
with who knows what
kind of news

the day it was struck going on and on...

the day
it was struck
going on and on…

knot holes by tom clausen

16 Tuesday Jun 2015

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beauty, design, eyes, haiku, introspection, Ithaca, knot holes, knots, New York, patterns, photography, planks, poetry, texture, time, wabi sabi, weathered, weathering, wood, wood grain

my eye-
a knot hole
in the old barn

knot holes giving a peek into the old barn...

the children
peek
into the old barn…

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looking on line about another symptom the hypochondriac

looking on line
about another symptom
the hypochondriac

plans by tom clausen

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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design, gardens, green, haiku, nature, patterns, photography, planting, poetry

the plant in the window
has gone everywhere
it can
without a plan I start off on a walk just to see...

without a plan
I start off on a walk
just to see…

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yin yang by tom clausen

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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art, decay, designs, earth art, forests, fungi, globes, mushrooms, nature, patterns, photography, poetry, tanka, woods

the farther away it gets
the more magical it becomes,
those times at night
in the back seat,
my parents taking us someplace....
 
 under the pine another creation  yin yang

under the pine
another creation
yin yang

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chain link by tom clausen

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

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art, design, fences, found art, illusion, marriage, patterns, photography, poetry, reconciliation, time, truth

thirty years
between us
changes us

the chain link fence holding back the weeds

the chain link fence holding back
the weeds

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patterns by tom clausen

06 Saturday Jun 2015

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art, design, found art, oceans, patterns, photography, poetry, Rhode Island, ripples, sand, Scarborough Beach State Park, seas, tanka, water

creating a space
in himself
that can’t be filled
     – his lengthy ritual
        seaside walks

the way water comes and goes on the beach

the way
water comes and goes
on the beach

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wabi- sabi by tom clausen

27 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Tom Clausen in abandoned buildings, close up details, poems and photos, rust, Wabi Sabi

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art, decomposition, details, found art, iron, little poems, metal, paint, patterns, peeling, photography, poetry, rust, steel, wabi sabi, weathering

end of the trail
the world
without humans
outside in the way rust begins

outside in
the way rust
begins

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