“As I spend more money, the more junk mail I get. Each set on explaining how my life would be so much better with this new item they have to sell. My news feed on Facebook trips over itself …”

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the mesquite tree corpse
crowned by fresh green leaves, endless
reaching summer days

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 23, 2023 as the tailwind of #summer could be felt throughout the Sonoran Desert.)

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“As I spend more money, the more junk mail I get. Each set on explaining how my life would be so much better with this new item they have to sell. My news feed on Facebook trips over itself …”

Finish reading this #haibun ( #haiku with prose) here: bit.ly/3RpItCS

minnows darting in
and out like the heat of these
pre-autumn days

Marc Edwards

(Originally written on September 16, 2023, as #summer wound down into #autumn )

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the mesquite tree corpse
crowned by fresh green leaves, endless
reaching summer days

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 23, 2023 as the tailwind of #summer could be felt throughout the Sonoran Desert.)

poemsandhaiku.blogspot.com/2023/09/mesqui…

#haiku

“Last week, the state of Arizona decided not to renew the lease on some farm land a Saudi Arabia company used to pump massive amounts of water from under the state to grow hay for their cattle…”

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“The deep crevices of the Tonto Mountains rise and fall. Sometimes the mountains fall at steep slopes and sometimes they drop like canyon walls. There really is no easy pass through them…”

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“As I spend more money, the more junk mail I get. Each set on explaining how my life would be so much better with this new item they have to sell. My news feed on Facebook trips over itself …”

Finish reading this #haibun ( #haiku with prose) here: bit.ly/3RpItCS

minnows darting in
and out like the heat of these
pre-autumn days

Marc Edwards

(Originally written on September 16, 2023, as #summer wound down into #autumn )

poemsandhaiku.blogspot.com/2023/09/dartin…

#haiku

the mesquite tree corpse
crowned by fresh green leaves, endless
reaching summer days

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 23, 2023 as the tailwind of #summer could be felt throughout the Sonoran Desert.)

poemsandhaiku.blogspot.com/2023/09/mesqui…

#haiku

“As I spend more money, the more junk mail I get. Each set on explaining how my life would be so much better with this new item they have to sell. My news feed on Facebook trips over itself …”

Finish reading this #haibun ( #haiku with prose) here: bit.ly/3RpItCS

“Constant joking and wise cracks around the screened-in porch that was also the kitchen. Days spent trying to stand the longest on an inner tube on the lake, only for the waves to topple the best..…”

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“Last week, the state of Arizona decided not to renew the lease on some farm land a Saudi Arabia company used to pump massive amounts of water from under the state to grow hay for their cattle …”

Finish reading this #haibun ( #haiku with prose) here: is.gd/qptmET

“So much depends on the moment. The first time my nephew called me by my name, I stopped and said, “Yes.” I remember that. I remember the moment when I knew my love would be returned…”

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there for that moment
driftwood soon to pilgrim on
as summer floats off

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 2, 2023, on the Salt River, Arizona, as #summer showed signs of drifting away.)

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“No amount of design or planning, no amount of conveniences, and no amount of technological breakthrough could create the sense of family we had at Camp.…”

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clouds since before dawn
so much depends on this rain
what a monsoon spawns

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 4, 2021, as a #summer monsoon moved through the Sonoron Desert of Arizona.)

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broken bird bones
now using concrete's heat
smattered gray feathers

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 4, 2010 in the late #summer while looking at a dead bird in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland.)

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clefted and sudden,
these green walls envelope me
back in her arms

Marc Edwards

(Originally published on September 1, 2012, the #summer I moved back to Upstate New York.)

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