hummingbird feeder

deep in the woods
the nurse log feeding
a hummingbird

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Still conflicted about taking my laptop to the Urban Sketchers Symposium, so if the blog goes static until August 1, I've gone 'naked' to Portland.

a moon-shiny night

On a moon-shiny night,

Wonder
opens to
Unwritten History

silent,
sitting by the bed.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'moon-eyed.'

Mystic Wreath

the Moon

A Mystic Wreath
in bold relief
on a dark ground

The MOON

I love its simplicity,
on a Sunday in July

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After erasing 7,544 words explaining 'reverse,' the OED word of the day, these 23 words were all that remained.

no half-measures

Art well created
observes no half-measures

it balances
reality with poetry

and calls man to his existence.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'economical'; as usual, more reality than poetry from the Oxford boys.

chinos

wearin' chinos
drinking 'chinos —
summer @ starbucks

savor the new

savor the common, the new
to give it a spirit
abounding with
rare Flowers,
radiant and perfect

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Today's erasure poem|commentary comes from the surprising OED word of the day "flosculous": pertaining to, or of the nature of flowers.

Did that add to your vocabulary too?

Sun-Beams

poetry breathing
energy from Sun-Beams

a Song of July

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'manufacture.'

skippety-jump

It was July.

respectable
middle-aged women
did a skippety-jump,
smiling

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Today's poem|commentary comes, as usual, from the OED's word of the day, 'dump bin.'

Certain unnamed parties have noted that the OED word of the day is sometimes, in fact, more than one 'word.'

Harrumph.

If the word of the day is ever 'word,' perhaps we will have this explained. Absent that, I am putting it down to a metric rounding error.

low tide

covered
uncovered
low tide

silence dripping

cool gray sunday
in the conservatory
silence dripping

Sweet Thunder

July (Weekend)
filled with laughter
Such Sweet Thunder

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Today's erasure poem is again from the OED word of the day: rattle. There are pages on ways to use it.

In the 18th century, rattle was a mild expletive: "But what the rattle makes you look so tarnation (sic) glum?"

Somehow, I don't see r-bombs finding their way back to the street. But if they do, you heard it here first.

the real deal

sunflower —
a good stunt double
on a cloudy day

blackberry tunnel

walking through
a blackberry
t
u
n
n
e
l

feeling like Alice

with brilliance

le quatorze juillet -
recent events
celebrated with brilliance

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A small rebellion: today's erasure poem is from the Wikipedia entry for Bastille Day, rather than the exceedingly dreary & diseased OED word of the day: Osler.

And a big thank you to my little brother for the sunflowers!!

the wonder of July

the wonder of July,
the glorious Way that in life

Nothing is so genuine as
the rhythm
and the light

passing..notes.

emptied

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The erasure poem|commentary is, as always, courtesy of the OED word of the day: supposition.

a Vision

a Vision of the day may rise, and swell,

I shall give you a little
Painting

the Picture of
Paradise in the Morning

trees,
the sea,
grace.

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem was 'mention.'

leaf envy

summer heat —
envious of the leaf
floating down the creek

summer leaves

century-old windows
double hung with
summer leaves

a line passing through a line

lives, cosmographically described

A line passing through another Line
from the Center, which we will call Life
has acquired considerable force

The pencil has a point.

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'polar line.'

July

July /

let me have large and frequent doses.


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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'perforation.'

through the sprinkler

hot summer day —
crossing the street to smile
through the sprinkler

old friends

old friends picking up
right where they left off —
blue summer sky

picnic

WWII fort —
a Japanese family picnics
in the meadow

Spangled with stars

Spangled with stars the sky
Whose light you take a last look at —

not more than eight times

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Apparently, the OED folks across the pond don't hold a grudge: the word of the day for the erasure poem is "star-spangled."

The etymology does note that Francis Scott Key didn't coin the expresion in 1814; it turns out Josuah Sylvester penned (quilled?) "star-spangled" in 1591.

free wi-fi

couples
decoupling —
free wi-fi

old growth

early summer —
old growth
birthing buttercups

july polartec

july first —
wearing polartec
to buy fireworks