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Friday, June 27, 2025

After the Workmen Leave

 




Posted by Mary Lee at 2:41 PM No comments:
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Labels: home, raccontino

Friday, June 20, 2025

They Aren't All Gone. Yet.

 




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Labels: environmental, insects, nature

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Chant of the June Garden

 


Chant of the June Garden

Boneset
hummingbird
Bowman’s Root
bee

zinnia sprout
hollyhocks
Cardinal Flower
weeds

coral bells
baby dill
fennel fronds
tree

clematis
foxglove
primrose
me

(c) Mary Lee Hahn, 2025

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Labels: flowers, garden, rhyming

Friday, June 6, 2025

We Do Not Care

 


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Labels: Manifesto

Letter to an Awkward Sixteen Year-Old Dragging Main

 




A golden shovel using a line from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Letter to NY” 

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Labels: Golden Shovel, letter, used mentor text
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Mary Lee
I am an experienced teacher. I am the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and I have poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, and the Poetry Friday Anthologies for Middle School, Science, and Celebrations (Pomelo Books); Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Book of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15,2016, 2017-18), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes, A World Full of Poems, 10.10 Poetry Anthology, Poems to Lift You Up and Make You Smile (YDP), IMPERFECT II, Things We Eat, Two Truths and a FIB Poetry Anthology, and 40 Poems for 40 Weeks.
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