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chaiwallah Posted Feb 5, 2005
She speaks, turns to me,
but I was wool-gathering.
"Sorry, what was that?"
nt: smoke
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Elfrida Posted Feb 6, 2005
The fire on the beach
lasted till dawn. All that day
we smelled of wood smoke.
nt: mist
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chaiwallah Posted Feb 6, 2005
We drink old whiskey,
wrapped in that sweet smokey mist
every kiss tastes smooth.
nt: skin
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Elfrida Posted Feb 7, 2005
Skin's a mystery:
yours fits you and mine fits me!
(Ogden Nash said this)
nt: bananas
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chaiwallah Posted Feb 7, 2005
Dieting, weight loss,
it's driving me bananas,
same skin, same hassle.
nt: fur
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Elfrida Posted Feb 8, 2005
Cat cleaning her fur
punctuates the exercise
curled like a comma
nt: feathers
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chaiwallah Posted Feb 8, 2005
Scattered feathers, blood -
Looks like that cat's been hunting
Birds, successfully.
nt:chocolate
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Elfrida Posted Feb 9, 2005
Somebody tell me:
what's the chemical that's in
love and chocolate?
nt: wine
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Mal Posted Feb 9, 2005
An empty bottle
In unsteady hands, my sweet,
Red wine stains your lips.
nt: night walking
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Elfrida Posted Feb 10, 2005
We went night walking
my daughter and I. No moon.
Was that an owl's cry?
nt: owls
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chaiwallah Posted Feb 10, 2005
'Ere, did you 'ear that?
All bleedin' night that dog 'owls.
Someone should shoot it.
nt. owls
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Elfrida Posted Feb 12, 2005
Gold-eyed eagle owls
watch me. As I walk round them
their heads turn, staring.
nt: wildfowl
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Elfrida Posted Mar 3, 2005
Wildfowl are nesting
further along the river...
I heard them today.
nt: snow
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chaiwallah Posted Mar 3, 2005
"Nippy, isn't it?"
His black dog snuffles the snow,
grey on white sea-shells.
nt: toothpicks
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Elfrida Posted Mar 5, 2005
When restauranteurs
set out to fight a duel
it's toothpicks at dawn...
nt: truffles
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Deb Posted May 1, 2005
The pig sniffs the air:
He smells truffles; he snuffles
The ground 'neath the tree.
nt: wedding
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Elfrida Posted May 2, 2005
It was our wedding
when the May blossom tumbled:
fragrant confetti.
nt: May
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Deb Posted May 3, 2005
Never cast a clout
Til May is out: so they say.
But what does it mean?
NT: clouds
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Elfrida Posted May 6, 2005
It means, when the air
is still and warm as soft clouds,
wear fewer garments!
nt: midsummer
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luckyorcadian Posted May 6, 2005
Midsummer is when
gentle fragrances give me
raging hay fever
nt - hay fever
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