Given opportunity and our attentiveness,
wildlife will show us behaviors
we’ve not previously witnessed.
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About Rob Gourley
La Señora de las Tortas
Mid-morning cake is not what I’m after,
and my few words of Español are inadequate for dialog.
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Each Bedroom has Two Doorways
Only after several years
of cottage living
did I wake up one morning,
recollecting that
when we visited my grandparents’
Georgian Bay cottage in summer
whilst the blueberries were ripe,
I’d hear my Grand-dad
going out his bedroom’s back door
22 in hand,
before dawn brightened,
to scare the pesky goundhog
near his garden plot.
Minus Tide
Uneven runnels between larger outcrops
deepen, getting out to the surf-spray edge,
where waves confront black rocks in loud wallops.
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Drift Boats on the Klickitat
This is a hastening tributary —
it’s not the wider river
with headwaters gathered in the Rockies
which divulges its volume beyond Astoria.
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Offspring
The Deer raise their brown heads
to make contact by eyes
and seem to acknowledge,
I’m the harmless neighbor.
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Variation on a Sparrow Haiku
My wren haiku is a variation on Kerouac-Berrigan’s collaborative effort.
Note from the Cottage with Roof Replaced
Perhaps it’s silly to mention
from my far-flung harbor region ….
The tri-color ink-drawn delight
of four geese running to take flight….