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Closeup of water in the surf of a Lake Michigan.

Waves pulling away
in the morning as we search
the sky for rainstorms.

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The shadows of two people cast on a calm great lake in morning sun with storm clouds at the horizon.

The warm morning lake,
a storm at the horizon,
catches our shadows.

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A view of a blooming lavender field under blue sky and puffy clouds in summer.

Just the sound of bees
doing what they love on earth,
keeping us alive.

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A garden of pink hollyhocks blooming in July.

Hollyhock season,
stars at the center of each,
the dust for the bees.

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Sunburst lichen grows on a white rock.

Sunburst lichen grows
on the bleached white island rocks —
sun drawing out sun.

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Morning sky before sunrise with a sickle moon visible.

Looking for answers —
the moon, still sharp in the sky,
it says, “stop looking.”

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A sign that reads, "There are artists among us," above the front porch of an old house with a square gable in early evening light in summer.

In the day’s last light,
there are artists among us,
trying to make sense.

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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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