TheBanyanTree: clock-tober

[Pam Lawley]

I love your poetry Mike!  This is wonderful - thank you so much for sharing
it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com> wrote:

> the fountain frog is drooling
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> its pump is clogged with leaves
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> and mother spiders spin their final
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> webs among the eaves
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> toads are trapped in window wells
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> walnuts fall like diving bells
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> and pock the ground
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> while squirrels bound to
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> gnaw their bitter shells.
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> autumn builds its vivid scenes
> gardens die in ruined dreams
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> poets in their hammocks swing
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> and cock an eye
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> as summer flies away
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> on clockwork wings.
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> the solstice wind is speaking
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> in long sibilants and spray
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> and dusk extends its cloak a little
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> earlier each day
> fretting over fading green
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> knowing what the cold rain means
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> poets crawl on window screens
> they peer inside and
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> hope to hide from
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> frigid winter scenes.
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