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Pond fish gather and point in all different directions just below the surface of a sun-dappled pond in late summer.

The late summer fish
gather as we approach them
at the warm, deep pond.

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A white-tailed deer stands eating thistle leaves with goldenrod in bloom behind it in late summer.

We hear her crunching
in a patch of tall thistle
as we walk out our grief.

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His nose is awake —
under every green leaf,
sadness and delight.

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A view of afternoon sun reflected on ripples on a river in late summer.

This river is me,
I could shape it with my hands,
minnows for the heart.

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A view of afternoon sun behind tall trees in late summer.

Hawks and kingfishers
make rounds above the river
while we change below.

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A young deer stands at the edge of a forest foraging on a summer evening.

All body and bow,
curved and lithe and calm in the
green understory.

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A Cabbage White butterfly feeds on a wildflower in July in Michigan.

Off of the main road,
down the slope, along the path,
the Cabbage White feeds.

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A view of tall pine trees against a pre-dawn sky with the tip of Ursa Minor still glowing.

Summer starts to fade,
the head of Ursa Minor
lifts its nose at dawn.

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

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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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