Source: Marston, Betsy. “Heard Around the West.” High Country News 25 May 2015.
Tag: nature
Beauty Drops Dead
Ode to my home, the Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada… 
Splitting Wood
Splitting wood,
Blood
drips from my body
Washboard Road
A Great Intention
More surrealist “dreamscapes” can be found at: Thomas Sheridan Arts
“Intention leads to”
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Intention leads to
Not knowing which way
the branches will bend.
Examples include: watering seeds,
needing affirmations, but not
thinking about the flow of water
in arteries and veins
over lights and pain.
Never what you hoped for.
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© 2013 C.L. Quigley
Inspired by Trifecta: Week Fifty-Nine
and by Thomas Sheridan: “A Great Intention”
Mother Nature
Plucking Rushes
Green leaves,
Red shoots and
bending wind, you and I
in the same boat,
plucking rushes
at Five Lakes.
We sail at dawn
from orchid island
and rest under
the elms
till noon, you and I
plucking rushes,
had not plucked
a single rush
when the moon rose.
Anonymous, fourth century A.D.
Transformed by C.L. Quigley from Arthur Waley’s
original Chinese translations
3 Haiku
Five point buck
left sperm
on the sidewalk, shining!
Waiting for spring,
Medusahead
under the snow
Splitting wood,
Blood
drips from my body
© C.L. Quigley
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