sunday 31 january

inside glazed pots
blue sky reflections
in last week's rain

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Today's OED word of the day was 'lawyer.' Strangely enough, couldn't find a poem buried in that text.

saturday 30 january

jumping out of bed
to catch the early show —
desert sunrise

friday 29 january

shadows lie
across the Estrellas —
coveys of quail

thursday 28 january

my yoga teacher:
"You're not waiting, you're being" —
hard sell at SeaTac

wednesday 27 january

a bold squirrel
munching furiously
stands his ground and stares

tuesday 26 january

HOPE:

Hearts
must laugh easily.

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Today's entry courtesy of the OED word of the day: parry.

monday 25 january

lime-green sculpture —
the moss-covered tree
bathed in
january sun

sunday 24 january

round Poems roll’d
How Nature leans.

language
will not balance itself

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The OED word of the day is 'bias.'

saturday 23 january

without color
no place for bad design to hide —
january day

friday 22 january

wet Wanderings
The splendid rush of sea water up the beach
the ground is soft
I will brave it, delight walking with a silly air

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The OED word of the day is 'swash.' It's not just about bucklers anymore.

thursday 21 january

Free and Untrammeled,
I could see Evening
winding into great melodies
in a tangle of blossoms

Do not ask me how it is done.

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Today's OED word of the day is 'spaghetti,' from which entry all was erased but these words.

wednesday 20 january

on the snowy path
just the click of one snowshoe
against the other

tuesday 19 january

to start a day
on the water
is sublime

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Barges, booms and a crane are part of rebuilding the old floating dock at Seacrest for the water taxi. Service recommences in April; another reason to anticipate spring.

monday 18 january

tugged across the bay
the container- laden barge
makes a new skyline

sunday 17 january

ceiling pipes
echoing century's old
laughter

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This sketch is in Wallingford Center, originally the 1904 Interlake Elementary School (one of our group was a student!), site of today's sketch crawl by the Seattle chapter of Urban Sketchers. Thanks to Frank Ching, whose beret served as my focus, until he left to find his next sketch.

sunday 17 january

the last departing gleam of grey twilight.
a rare
pathway
To understand the Stars

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Today's OED word of the day is radiant.

The sketch is from Wallingford Center, originally the Interlake Elementary School, built in 1904, where the Seattle chapter of Urban Sketchers had their 'crawl' today.

saturday 16 january

january sun
too weak to cast a shadow
but still...

friday 15 january

Love
Is a
heart pursuing
beauty.

What a life is this

the whistling breeze
Into the sea

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'woo.'
Though not marked obsolete, the last citation of the word was from 1903. Not cited was that the Canadian artist Emily Carr had a pet monkey named Woo.

thursday 14 january

swaying,
Thy giant brood of pines
in whose devotion
The winds come

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The basis of this erasure poem is once again the OED word of the day: swinging.

wednesday 13 january

leaning in
to the creek a tree with a
brontosaurus curve

tuesday 12 january

january rain —
a series of
refills

monday 11 january

down the rocky hill
the stream finds a way
to sing its song

sunday 10 january

though sailors take warn,
the january sunrise
turns glass into gold

saturday 9 january

happiness —
a comprehensive
embracing
of all life
with ease

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The OED word of the day: comprehensive.

friday 8 january

sing of hills and woods
Eternal
is very short.

walking
An endless
new Teaching


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Today's OED word of the day is 'file.'

thursday 7 january

Mount Baker glows
in a sliver of sunshine
between hills and clouds

wednesday 6 january

january walk —
red berries along the path
warm the air

tuesday 5 january

last night's high tide
lingers
on the seawall steps

monday 4 january

morning
a showery sky
mood
in whose formation Nature
set us in the right direction

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Today's OED word of the day was 'partial.'

sunday 3 january

reflected in the
flow
Daily
Pilgrimage
has the power
of Revelation


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Once again, today's erasure poem is taken from the OED word of the day: pyramid.

saturday 2 january

a new year —
man frames the infinite
and unknowable

friday 1 january

01.01.10
binary code for
a clean slate