4 months from Monday, Monday

Monday, Monday, can't trust that day. — "Papa" John Phillips


JANUARY 2

Stunning porch lights, on all night


JANUARY 9

& the cold slaps my cheek, a hint of snow but this


JANUARY 16

false sun blazing. Deep night & still 65 degrees. The green


JANUARY 23

of my lawn is the greenest green & the sun


JANUARY 30

blazing & the porch lights on all night long.


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MARCH 6

My catastrophe unfolding: this movement, this


MARCH 13

progression. Every other day,


MARCH 20

every other day of the week is fine.


MARCH 27

That new leaf is not the shape of anything I've seen before.


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APRIL 3

Wild birds spin their spring path.


APRIL 10

Even one bird is striking:


APRIL 17

stiletto beak, such tiny agonies.


APRIL 24

Can you imagine the wrong kind of bird?


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JUNE 5

Rain & the porch lights on all day long.


JUNE 12

The lawn the green of angry birds, their shape


JUNE 19

unlike any other shape, the wrong kind


JUNE 26

of shape, a pressed hand.

— Nate Pritts (© 2006)


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