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It's Time to Say Goodbye When we met we agreed he would stay for two weeks. He was welcome -- so charming, so fine. Now it's been a...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by  /Sizemore/ TRAFFIC COP Drivers think the traffic cop is totally about the, "STOP!" Standing...

TEACHING I teach, I watch. They fall, I catch. I lift, they soar. I brood, they hatch. They spread, I gath...

Peanut Butter Goes with ALMOST Everything Four pairs for my peanut butter that you’ll never see: liver, oysters, spam and sushi. ©Mary Lee ...

LOST AND FOUND ACT 1 The hawks are whistling. Every morning I listen, wonder, imagine. The nest, constructed in a pignut hi...

APRIL MOSAIC The sky above a yellow glove Two observe mushrooms curve Long spikey slow slippery 25 spot 3 cake p...

Le's Flaming Poo Poo Platter ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT Turns out I didn't need the  Venti Awake Tea from Starbucks after all. All I ne...

WISE INVESTMENT I have never said this to you, but you were one of my inspirations in my life. You invested in me so much in fourth...

POETRY READING I am listening  to the poet  George Bilgere   and imagining my first poetry reading,  someday in the unknown future.  I...

AREA, PERIMETER, VOLUME Gardens and fences and new tile floors, towers of blocks and a bulletin board border. Perimeter says "RIM...

CAUSE AND EFFECT Someone stole my teacher. They took my favorite one. She helped me  patiently, she was cheerful an...

Iris in April? Should be Memorial Day -- Seasons are wacko. © Mary Lee Hahn, 2012

T wo generations, in a time-honored R elay, passing the baton of E xistence -- A ll of the S tuff  which seems U nremarkable, but which de...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Janerc RHUBARB Such a waste. Leaves the size of elephant ears discarded. All that plant energy composte...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by newfilm.dk CHANT OF THE COMPUTER-WEARY update download Internet code password fire wi...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Tafkabecky WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE A DOMINO           Think in black and white. Fan before each play...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Chedder WEST ON I-70 The horizon circles me like a coyote warily watchfully remotely Th...

SONG OF SMART (inspired by  Opening Minds , by Peter H. Johnston) Smart is not a have / have not -- it grows. Smart is not a can...

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Len Blumin Fox, hawk, meadowlark, Big sky, wide open landscape: Welcome committee. © Mary Lee Hahn, 2...

PARDON MY FRENCH Do I parlez-vous Français? Well, I really couldn't say. I know that checkers are passé, And what a fencer says: ...

For a moment, everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we al...

CAKE-KU Planet on a stick, I orbit, hungry -- a drooling comet. © Mary Lee Hahn

DECLARATION I am sky, background for your silhouette. We are trees, earthbound artists of form and substance. © Mary Lee Hahn, 2012

CHILDHOOD Scab -- pick it. Booger -- flick it. Penny -- find it. Kite string -- wind it. Horse -- pretend it. Fort -...

WHY TAI CHI? Tai Chi is a deliberate dance, both solitary and in tandem. It is a chorus sung with body instead of voice. You are rooted to...