tails by tom clausen

18 Thursday Jun 2015

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fields, grazing, green, horse, horses, Ithaca, New York, pasture, photography, poetry, summer, switching, tails, tanka

high clouds…
one horse leans in
against another-
before our children
my wife and I were like that

mid afternoon
out to pasture
grazing in the grass…

narrative by tom clausen

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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golden, light, nature, observation, peace, photography, poetry, serenity, silhouette, sky, stillness, summer, sun, sunset, tanka, trees, witness, writing

once again
the narrative
on the news
made no mention
of serenity…

I’ve lost count
of the number of sunsets
I’ve watched…

chipmunk by tom clausen

11 Thursday Jun 2015

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nature, photography, poetry, summer, tanka, walking

as I walk by
the neighbor’s old place
a chipmunk poses
on the foundation
of their garage…

we both hold still
staring at each other
absorbed by it all…

ebbing light by tom clausen

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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light, Narragansett, oceans, photography, poetry, Rhode Island, Roger Wheeler State Beach, sea side, seas, shore line, sunsets, surf, tanka, tides

ambivalence

I believe is what

I’ve come to sitting here

watching wave after wave

land itself

sunset
washing back and forth
on the beach

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

relics by tom clausen

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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locks, memory, nostalgia, photography, poetry, relics, sea glass, tanka, time, toys, trinkets, window sills

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

outside
window sill
catch all

horseshoe crab by tom clausen

08 Monday Jun 2015

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beauty, find, form, horseshoe crabs, lighthouse, Narragansett, nature, ocean, photography, poetry, Point Judith, Rhode Island, sea life, shores, tanka

as a peace offering
I carry the ancient crab
and set it down
next to my daughter
without a word…

on the rocks
intact …
but lifeless

arrow by tom clausen

08 Monday Jun 2015

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art, direction, directions, found art, lost and found, markers, New York City, photography, poetry, relics, signs, tanka, the way, urban, wabi sabi

the brass arrow
points the way
to something or someplace
that no longer
is there…

Central Park
from another era
an arrow…

still standing by tom clausen

08 Monday Jun 2015

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beauty, creeks, farms, fields, Lisle, nature, New York State, photography, poetry, rivers, streams, tanka, time, wabi sabi

the script
of days and nights
listening to the creek
rise and fall
into silence…

at the edge
of the creek
holding on…

flat iron building by tom clausen

06 Saturday Jun 2015

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design, Flat Iron Building, humor, Manhattan, New York City, passage, perspective, photography, poetry, sight seeing, skyscrapers, tanka, time, walking

once upon a time
the Flat Iron provided
the very best view…
falling behind my family
to take more photos

flat iron building…
step by step to the side
it flattens

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tails by tom clausen

narrative by tom clausen

chipmunk by tom clausen

ebbing light by tom clausen

yin yang by tom clausen

relics by tom clausen

horseshoe crab by tom clausen

arrow by tom clausen

still standing by tom clausen

flat iron building by tom clausen