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time out by tom clausen

10 Friday Jul 2015

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horses, Ithaca, observing, paddock, pasture, photography, poetry, seeing, summer, tanka, watching

in my daughter’s room
which used to be my room
her shelf
full of model horses
all looking at me

 

as they say... here's looking at you

as they say…
here’s looking
at you

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

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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12 spotted skimmer by tom clausen

01 Wednesday Jul 2015

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art, dragonflies, dragonfly, found art, nature, photography, poetry, ponds, summer, tanka, water

 

beyond this life
that one old friend
I bump into over and over
promising we’ll get together
again, someday

 


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12 spotted skimmer
is what a friend tells me
it is…

snails by tom clausen

29 Monday Jun 2015

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details, easy, gardens, Ithaca, nature, New York, now, photography, poetry, shells, slow, snails, summer, tanka

revealed so long
this grain of wood
on our floor-
 the distance yet
we have to go

 

snails on the move over pavers

snails
on the move
over pavers

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gauges by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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art, beauty, design, details, dials, dreams, farm equipment, farms, Finger Lakes, gauges, machinery, machines, numbers, poetry, reading, summer, tanka, wabi sabi

the needle
holding true
season after season
exactly as it was between us
long ago…

so many things  left  to the sweep of time

so many things
left to the sweep
of time

the last pressure setting frozen for all time...

the last pressure
setting frozen
for all time…

looking out by tom clausen

27 Saturday Jun 2015

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Ithaca, Lab of Ornithology, meditation, nature, observe, parks, peace, peace of mind, photography, poetry, ponds, quiet, Sapsucker Woods, sitting, summer, tanka, witness

heart to heart
we reach that place
that exists in the past
from which we are no longer
just here…

the photo that moment just that moment...

the photo
that moment
just that moment…

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

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