22 April 2019 (Earth Day)

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leaving the river alone

with its thoughts 

UPDATE: And here’s a friend’s reinterpretation to accompany his spectacular photograph of Utah’s canyon country: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-588847-1.html

April 22: Earth Day

telling me not to

she would pick mayflowers

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April 22: Earth Day

Scoping the saltmarsh--

four herons also huddled

against rain and cold.

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April 22: Earth Day

This Earth Day I've spent a lot of time watching the sky. The cumulus clouds rolling in from the west to heap up against Mount Megunticook have been dramatic. Puffy piles of water vapor accumulating and dissipating fill the horizon in ever-shifting arrangements. Today would have been a good day to lie out on a lawn somewhere and observe cloud patterns. I see the Sphinx in the cloud below, or maybe a griffin. Poised next to a cabbage. A good day to let the mind wander a little bit.

How vapor becomes
a griffin poised on pine trees:
clouds, a relaxed mind.