second fermenting a rounded vowel bubbles up
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crayon what to draw with this new shade of blue
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a tree frog
flicking her tongue
solar flare
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no people to disturb
their island nest
buried ordnance
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tiny troughs
on the beetle’s shell
a sip of desert fog
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approaching spoon that first scent of applesauce
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aurora the sound of green swirls
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a brown pelican
at ease on the pylon
bayside yoga
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the moment we swap fear for love garden wasp
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thunderhead her fire opal by candlelight
*Bill Cooper is
a professor and president emeritus at the University of Richmond. He
has been writing haiku since 2009, and his haiku appear in a variety of
journals.