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Forget-me-not in bloom along the path at Thorne-Swift Nature Preserve in Harbor Springs, Michigan in summer.

We’re not strangers here —
forget-me-nots raise blue heads
all along the path.

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A view of the end of a tree cut and stacked in northern Michigan in summer.

Trees cut and stacked,
rings like stars, suns with rays, eyes —
centuried birthmarks.

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A view of the end of a tree cut and stacked in northern Michigan in summer.

Trees cut and stacked,
rings like suns with rays, stars, eyes —
centuried birthmarks.

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Haiku-a-day

Trees cut and stacked,
rings like eyes, stars, suns with rays —
centuried birthmarks.

Jennifer Farinajfarina, jenniferfarina, art, artist, abstractart, abstract, artwork, artstudio, originalartwork, painting contemporaryart, creative, haiku, watercolorpainting, nonrepresentationalart, poetry, personalessay, painter, annarbor, wabisabi, brushstrokes, ink drawing, handmade, sketchbook, collage, cut paper collage, paperstars, imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, forest, trees, tree ringsComment
Haiku-a-day
A view of the ends of trees cut and stacked in northern Michigan in summer.

Trees cut and stacked,
rings like eyes, suns with rays, stars —
centuried birthmarks.

Jennifer Farinajfarina, jenniferfarina, art, artist, abstractart, abstract, artwork, artstudio, originalartwork, painting contemporaryart, creative, haiku, watercolorpainting, nonrepresentationalart, poetry, personalessay, painter, annarbor, wabisabi, brushstrokes, ink drawing, handmade, sketchbook, collage, cut paper collage, paperstars, imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, forest, trees, tree ringsComment
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A deer walks in a field in early springtime.

Color of the field,
knowing spring fills it all in —
the deer walks through it.

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A goldfinch perched in a sunny high tree branch in springtime.

Starting evening song,
the goldfinch in the ginkgo —
his beak to the sun.

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A red-winged blackbrd perched in a high tree branch in springtime.

His song like heartache,
he gives it away for free
to the whole forest.

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A Baltimore Oriole landing in a high tree branch in springtime.

His singular song
saved for this April forest —
up down and up down.

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A chicakdee perched in a tree with the sun shining through its tail feathers in springtime.

It’s getting later,
chickadees revelating,
there is more to say.

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A Robin perched in a tree with another in the distance in another tree in a spring forest.

Color coming in,
a Robin in every tree —
each one breathing life.

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A Canadian Goose standing on a large rock in a river in springtime.

He stood on a rock,
huge on the river bottom,
then stepped in the flow.

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A titmouse in a tree in springtime.

Earnest in springtime,
he pulls songs deep from his chest
that bounce off the sky.

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A pair of mallard ducks sit and guard their nest on a riverbank in springtime.

A pair of mallards
like sentinels in springtime —
eggs at river’s edge.

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A clump of bloodroot and squill blooming in springtime.

Bloodroot and blue squill
open to woodpecker drums
in the spring forest.

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A clump of hepatica blooms opening through dead leaves on the forest floor in springtime.

Oh you wistful girl,
hepatica up through dead leaves,
alive underground.

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A garter snake coiled on the forest floor in springtime.

Sleeping with lichen —
the garter wakes in the woods
under April sun.

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A Robin singing high in a tall tree in springtime.

Reedy and intent,
his song is automatic —
Robin in springtime.

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A long view of a decaying tree on the forest floor covered in green moss in the sun on a spring day.

Cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer,
the cardinal, relentless
in these darkest times.

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A male and female pair of mallards swim in a spring pool filled with relfections in April.

Their wake breaks shadows
cast across cold spring pools —
duck pair in April.

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