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Hennepin Canal

Hood River, Oregon, with Mt Hood in the background

Hay Bales in Montana

Rooster Cruiser, Illinois

Nebraska

Gold Beach

Bridges Smith #1 & 2

A untitled Tanka:
Natures Candles glimmer
Autumn's lightning blooming
Petal plumage droops n flickers
Leaves wither in white dew
Foliage raindrops in free fall

MOLESKINE

MOLESKINE

As I reach into my bag I do so a little more intently

I embrace it a little more intuitively  earnestly

As I retrieve it into my field of view I give it a visual   a tactile twice over 

My fingertips caress its soft leather bound skin   feeling it out for bruises   scratches   or tearing

My fingertips intentionally ease up alongside its elastic strap

I then gleefully

Spreed my MOLESKINES inner binding open to release that smell   feel   and look that is so enticingly familiar

I can't resist stroking the slight gap created flush up against its inner spine

I grab its back with my left hand and press hard up against its pages with my right

While leaving droplets from my soul upon its pages

I then firmly   lovingly bear down with my thick felt pen into its pages

Trying not to stain or smudge too much   but sometimes 

I just lose all inhibition    and scratch!

Here there everywhere

Recalcitrant winds gust about

East West North and South 

Ephemeral gorge winds

10 Degrees at Dawn

                                                               10 Degrees Dawn

The Gorge frozen dry

The sun diffused by clouds

Its mountainous walls drenched in dripping rain

INTERSTATE

Salted,  plowed,  well groomed

In the median  you go

Grimy    mucky     snow 

TA tstop in Breezwood, PA

The Canal in the refurbished Bricktown District of Oklahoma City

A sculpture in the Art Department at Duane College, in Crete, Nebraska. Duane claims to be the First Liberal Arts College in America ?

Looks like, feels like

Pollute extort

Deny deception

Copenhagen coughs up reprobations

Red Barns

Staged Doubles, George, Washington

Dayton, Ohio

Tea Pot

The Baltimore Maryland Produce Market

Railcar & Mile Marker 17

RAILCAR

Rusted out railcar

Discarded in winter's dawn

Harmony, discord

Mile Marker 17

At milepost 17

By the Lambertville Railcar

Amongst trees and vines

A momentary sketch in time (POEKUAGERY)

 

Texture in structure

We create a flawed structure

Cracks, stains, transparent shadows

Nature sculpts, chisels, and perfects it with the tools, of weather, of time

Artistic design

Thus a work of art is sketched within a moment in time

The Red Leaf

The Red Leaf

Dying amid death

withering amongst the dead

Amassed upon the forest floor

strewn upon a bed of leaves

Ah What Imagery

(ah something to wipe with)

This reddened foliage renews life again

Northern Exposure, Town n Set

The Bitterroot National Forest, Idaho

RIVERBED MARBLES

A river gurgles as it flows downstream

A riverbeds marbles create a pounding

Rumbling that permeates into the air

Though muffled 
by a layer of streaming water most everywhere

A river rumbling

Pebbles pounding

Sounds like marbles colliding under cold water in

My kitchen sink

Lookout Pass (Idaho-Montana Border on I-90)

Hennepin Revisited (Hennepin Canal in Illinios)