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An outdoor greenhouse filled with geraniums.

The summer greenhouse,
”geranium factory,”
we laugh, coin the name.

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An old white door of a Native American church with simple, fine engarvings on the panels.

The tender white door
in the middle of the woods,
at the blue lake’s shore.

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A view of sun on dune grasses and blue sky with puffy clouds on a summer day.

The ecstatic clouds,
the ecstatic dune grasses,
meet well in the sky.

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Birchbark-framed painting of Lady of the Mohawks inside St. Ignatius Church, Good Hart, Michigan.

Inside the small church
Lily of the Mohawks stands
with her arms open.

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A slug climbs on a mossy tree stump below a red-belted conk fungi.

The slug and the conk,
wake in the Michigan woods
to move and not move.

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Ten wet cormorants drying their wings on a cement piling in Lake Michigan.

Ten wet cormorants
drying their wings in the bay,
a big-clouded day.

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A lavender farm in midsummer under blue sky with a large dramatic white cloud.

Lavender fields forever
on a blue sky, big cloud day,
the wind blowing luck.

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Waves coming in on a smooth Lake Michigan beach under blue sky with wispy clouds that are in the shape of loose asterisks.

Clouds like asterisks
over the lake I think of
that’s always like this.

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A black and white dog smelling a small bunch of lavender in the outdoor sun.

Her name, Carina,
the dog at the gallery
just north of Good Hart.

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A Red Admiral butterfly with lightly torn wings feeding on a purple coneflower in the sun.

Wings torn like paper,
the temporary wonders
of flight and being.

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