Wild Violet online literary magazine » Donald Gaither https://www.wildviolet.net Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:11:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 tiny fur snails https://www.wildviolet.net/2015/11/29/tiny-fur-snails/ https://www.wildviolet.net/2015/11/29/tiny-fur-snails/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:57:20 +0000 http://www.wildviolet.net/?p=5140 pussywillows with blue sky

tiny fur snails
inching up the branch—
pussy willows

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clinging to a twig
with unmoving tiny claws
— cicada shell

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cast for slant rhyme
plashless in Emily’s pond
— poet’s fishing rod

]]> https://www.wildviolet.net/2015/05/10/fishing/feed/ 1 Scrub Jays https://www.wildviolet.net/2014/04/08/scrub-jays/ https://www.wildviolet.net/2014/04/08/scrub-jays/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2014 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.wildviolet.net/?p=4227 Scrub jay in flight

blue darning needles —
scrub jays lace in-and-out
of the pines

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sparrows’ piccolos
drowned out
by drums of rain 

 

 

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