digging bar &pruning hook

john martone

samuddo / ocean 2013

digging bar & pruning hook copyright 2013 john martone samuddo / ocean johnmartone@gmail.com isbn 978-1-304-33087-1

digging bar & pruning hook

birch hydrangea peach

birch

dreaming a childhood friend wakes you up

churchbells leeuwenhoeks little circles

 introspection that single-celled see-thru life

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skink todays white wall quick

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 birch-roots deeper than you imagine

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birch-root thick as your arm understand?

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 stubborn birch stump human

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with his steel digging bar still an ape

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 digging bar pruning hook cloudless sky

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with digging bar & pruning hook limitless fool

chest muscles & back muscles birch stump

all roots cut torso cast aside

hydrangea

my pruning hats full of hydrangea

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pruning hook heavn come to earth

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 hydrangea we live in other worlds

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the hydrangeas fragrance deeper with cutting

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 the woods one vase hydrangea

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dead branches & living & a human in the hydrangeas

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 hydrangeas world upon world everyone speechless

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four petals four petals inexhaustible hydrangea

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hydrangeas complete the solar system

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hydrangeas hydrangeas & no one

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 hydrangeas human worlds are hollow

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so many bees emily hydrangeas

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 back door a snow shovel & hydrangeas

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youre done pruning the house is full of hydrangeas

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 hydrangeas of course its a water glass

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hydrangeas the pull of gravity

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 hydrangea showing the prairie its a blue hydrangea

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coda suddenly invisible (again) perseids people you know

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peach tree
End of the green stream: no person. Wang Wei (tr. Wai Lim Yip)

chilly wake-up think youre by the sea

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pruning his sense of horizon

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each year cut peach trees back more fruit

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childhood peach trees everything bled amber

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 an orchard once neighbors houses too

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peach tree easy to leap from

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 fifty years later peach twigs his mind snaps underfoot

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peach trees & four children

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 peaches even bad ones

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glacial moraine peach trees making stones

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come into the world skinning your knees on glacial moraine

9 years old walked right through framework house

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pruning saws edge the bright islands

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planted peach stones came to nothing

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remembering how you pried a peach stone open

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peach stone everything holding something else

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