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BOOK OF DAYS: A POET AND NATURALIST TRIES TO FIND POETRY IN EVERY DAY

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September 14: Class trip

Kristen Lindquist

Yesterday I helped lead a group of seventh graders on a nature hike in the Hodson Preserve in Camden, during which they were to record observations in a journal. What seemed to interest them: plants they could eat and the orderly lines of sap wells made by sapsuckers in birch bark. But mostly, as is natural, they were interested in each other.
 
Kids on a field trip.
I catch their interest
with Indian cucumber.
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tags haiku, indian cucumber, teaching, walk

April 3: Spring snow

Kristen Lindquist

Just as we began this morning's hike up Mount Battie, the snow started to fall and the wind started to howl. We three women and the dog accumulated snow as we walked quickly to keep warm against the wind. Fortunately the inclement weather didn't quiet the season's first sapsuckers and Winter Wren.

Snow falling faster.
Long trilled song of the wren
from somewhere in the woods.
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tags Camden Hills State Park, Mount Battie, birdsong, friends, haiku, snow, walk, wren

March 12: Skunk cabbage

Kristen Lindquist

Skunk cabbages are very interesting plants that generate enough internal heat that they can melt snow in the spring. There's been no snow-melting necessary this spring, so today on our walk we were able to observe the fresh shoots of skunk cabbages raising their mottled heads in the cedar swamp.
 
Skunk cabbages rise.
Walking past we two
generate our own spring heat.
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tags haiku, skunk cabbage, spring, walk