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raze a pair of cardinals. you never see them around here.

the male and female look like they're each a member of a different species. the lady flew close to the bird feeder but didn't approach it outright. the fella was the one who went in there and got the food, first for himself, then for her. some of the prettiest red i've ever seen between the two of them, i think.

they're socially monogamous, you know. they tend to pick a mate and stick with them until one of them dies. so some birds that fly together stay together. 		140911
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gja The damp cold bonfire pit from last Saturday night. 140913
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flowerock more windows. 140913
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raze another grey_sky_day. 140915
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raze silhouettes of treetops swaying in the intermittent rain-wind. 140930
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raze snowlight. 150112
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raze a crooked sapling too young yet to know what it's going to look like when it grows up, swaying in the breeze, looking for all the world like the longest, thinnest little finger a hand never had. 210927
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raze plastic sentinels cloaked in artificial light.

(or, you know, recycle bins.) 		210929
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unhinged a crow on the wire outside peering in at me, watching intently. odin had two ravens whose names escape me that he sent around as his own personal reconnaissance drones. i can't help but think some higher power is watching me because when i make eye contact with my dumpster crows they very clearly recognize me.

the iridescent blue patterns on their wing feathers and the way they prefer to strut and hop fascinate me.

the_crow_caws_back 		210929
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raze wet road turned a darker shade of grey. 211003
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tender_square veins of pink sliced across sky 211018
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tender_square an upright maple leaf lodged between the screen and glass; a corner of the leaf was golden, but it was mostly engulfed in red.

(it's sitting in my north-facing kitchen window.) 		211021
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raze a christmas tree in the living room of the house across the street, decorated with a handful of red ornaments. i thought, "that's a little early." but it wasn't a christmas tree. it was an optical_illusion created by the brake lights of a van that stopped for a moment in the middle of the street. when it drove away, it took the tree made of refracted light with it. 211023
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tender_square a sky the shade of diluted blood 211028
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raze a splotch of driveway the rain couldn't get to, forming the shape of a very friendly ghost with a wild whip of a pompadour, arms outstretched, its featureless face smiling in a way that seemed to say, "don't be afraid. i'm only here to haunt you." 211029
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tender_square the tiger’s eye orb hanging from the bare-branched maple, hornets huddled inside and slowly breaking in the cold snap 211030
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tender_square rainfall shimmering like static. 211102
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raze two forward leaning planks of wood, straight as a crow flies but without enough backbone to stand up on their own. 211104
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tender_square lawns of white fur. 211105
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raze a couple walking, not holding hands, him with his arms at his sides, her swinging her right arm like a pendulum, casting shadows behind them twice their size. 211108
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raze a black squirrel foraging for food on my front lawn. 211109
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tender_square a sugar maple's caramel leaves turning to toffee. 211109
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raze nine scattered leaves embedded in the cracks between the shingles on my roof. 211112
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raze three uncarved pumpkins still sitting on a stoop. only one of them is a ghost. 211113
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tender_square a billion flakes of first snow. 211114
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unhinged someone else's first_window through the phone screen of my virtual_visit 211115
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unhinged first_snow 211115
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raze sun bouncing off a smaller window, stabbing my eyes. 211115
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raze frost on the roof, and yellow leaves everywhere below it. 211116
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tender_square the slow unraveling of a cotton-candy sky, all baby blue and pink and sweet. 211116
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kerry my neighbor letting the air out of his girlfriend's tires as they screamed at each other on the sidewalk 211116
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tender_square a brilliant blue jay pausing on a branch. 211117
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raze a cobalt sky growing brighter with each wave of the wand. 211117
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tender_square the full moon peeking out from a parted veil of clouds. 211119
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raze tiny birds nestled like buds in the branches of a bald tree. 211120
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tender_square a tiger-leafed tree roaring its hue. 211121
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raze that little sapling, not so crooked now, but bereft of most of its hair, with nothing but a green faux hawk up top. 211123
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tender_square vestiges of fire on the horizon, the light becoming ropey strands between clouds i didn’t know existed. 211124
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raze invisible stones skipping across the surface of a river of rain. 211125
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tender_square a lime green workman directing a crane that lifts white cubes to land on a rooftop, while two other lime green men break apart the pallets and roll the materials like awkward logs across the gravel surface for later use. 211125
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nr all the tall grey buildings being swallowed up in fog 211125
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tender_square a boutonniere of bent boughs sagging with the weight of royal icing. 211128
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nr snow_world 211128
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kerry my best friend pulling her van into my parents’ driveway, walking up the path in a bright yellow hoodie and green overalls, black hair newly dyed lavender. 211128
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raze a computer screen on the other side of another window. someone was playing a game. i couldn't say what it was. 211129
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raze a group of starlings diving into their flight before breaking ranks to decorate the deciduous trees. 211202
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tender_square fat flakes of snow drifting in like the silk of milkweed floss. 211203
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raze a single winged seed on the roof that won't surrender to the wind's lure. 211205
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raze two red leaves, darkened by the days of their living, dancing into togetherness as they fell. 211206
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raze an orange thermoplastic lie: a traffic cone and a sign indicating work that isn't being done by city_workers who have no reason to be here. 211207
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raze a red wreath of christmas lights, their dim glow humbled by the quiet brilliance of the morning. 211208
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tender_square flurries of flight from fair-feathered friends warbling and whistling in the treetops. 211208
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raze a stop sign, its face flushed from the cumulative weight of being ignored by every passing car. 211209
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raze that same winged seed, still standing in the same spot. it won't let go. 211210
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kerry an antique pink velvet couch in front of augustus’s house. trash day is tomorrow so it’s clearly up for grabs. i’m tempted to knock on his door and ask what’s wrong with it, but i already have a velvet couch. 211213
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tender_square a family of american arborvitae in four different sizes: a tall papa, a shorter mama, and two kids still growing into their height. 211213
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raze sweat from the bottom of a parked car. an illegible tactile message not meant for my eyes or anyone else's. 211214
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tender_square george_bush digging frantically in the soft, wet ground to hide her assorted treasures. 211215
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raze eastbound smoky grey clouds. 211216
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unhinged a beautiful bearnaise sheperd tail up walking slowly past the gym watching humans on treadmills tongue lolling 211216
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tender_square warm winter sun shining directly on my face as i held virabhadrasana_ii. 211217
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tender_square branches of pendalogues dangling in dim daytime light. 211218
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raze clumps of loose dirt next to the curb, levelled by time and rain into splotches of accidental paint. mahogany reminders of the wellspring of all the life that lets us breathe. 211219
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tender_square tree sweat glint dripping in unobstructed sunlight. 211220
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raze the feeble radiance of a streetlight, diminished but not defeated by distance. 211221
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raze a few sparse snowflakes floating by like half-remembered thoughts. 211222
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raze a hollowed out milk carton skipping in the breeze. 211223
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raze a man dropping the brady thrasher catalogue into every mailbox on my block. from the cover you'd think it was a fashion magazine. it isn't. it's some glitzy promotional thing a real estate agent put together. he's really working that pout on the cover. 211224
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tender_square a majestic floofer of a calico taking reign on a cat tower 211224
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raze four sets of overlapping tire tracks in the snow. a network of truncated highways in miniature. 211227
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tender_square white light; the kind that comes when you know snow is on the ground without having to confirm. 211227
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raze green circular shingles that resemble a nonslip vinyl bath mat glued to the top of a house that isn't mine. 211228
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tender_square snow slinking from trees and eaves. 211229
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e_o_i The large underside of an airplane. "They're using our runway," says Dad to Mom, as if to say "They're playing our song." "Our" being the runway that brings planes screaming over the house. 211230
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kerry cars speeding down a wet street and "the oldest theater in america." 211230
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tender_square tiny paw prints from george_bush traipsing through snow to see if i’d put her breakfast out on the porch yet. 220102
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kerry fog

[also, tender_square, i'm intrigued by this george_bush! what species? :) ] 		220102
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kerry [nevermind!! i saw your other blathe after i did this one] 220102
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raze sunlight reflected off the snow, so brilliant and bright it burns my brain. 220103
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tender_square the frosted bronchioles of trees saturated in suspended breath. 220103
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raze fine gems of salt to melt the ice that hides in plain sight. 220105
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raze small sheets of frozen water on the street in the shape of footprints. 220106
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tender_square flakes of snow the size of moths descending in droves. 220106
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kerry the_autodidact shoveling snow in new sneakers. 220107
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raze a yellow door. 220108
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unhinged a crow friend on the electrical lines
peeping in on me 		220108
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raze two dogs on leashes leading their human. 220109
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kerry three men unloading a stretcher from a van labeled "pennsylvania burial company." 220109
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raze the crooked mouth of a laughing one-eyed eavestrough. 220110
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tender_square a fallen branch large enough to be a sapling. 220110
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raze a plastic shopping bag pulled taut after getting caught between the skinny arms of the trees in my neighbour's backyard. a featureless mask without a face to conceal. 220111
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kerry bright sunlight, beautiful blue sky, and garbage. 220112
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tender_square a scarlet smear of sunlight. 220112
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raze thick socks bobbing on a distant clothesline. 220114
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tender_square dead leaves lifting their points from slow-melting snowy graves. 220114
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past an orange helicopter rushing through the endless optimism of an infinite blue sky, hoping against hope there's room for its broken passenger in the overwhelmed hospital. 220114
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raze a gorgeous two-tone sky dimming as what's left of the sun sings the last notes of its leaving song. 220115
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tender_square dandruff flakes drifting from the crowns of trees. 220116
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raze a delivery driver stepping out of a filthy red van, carrying a cardboard box festooned with orange tape. 220118
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raze cotton candy clouds working hard to camouflage themselves behind the folded arms of emaciated trees. 220119
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kerry dense fog 220120
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raze a tan sedan with an elegant temporary tattoo on the hood, care of the fading light. 220121
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raze a man in a grey hoodie with a green shopping basket under his arm, walking like he had something to hide. 220122
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unhinged fog so thick the massive conifers were blocked from view 220122
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kerry four boys playing basketball in the street 220123
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tender_square perfectly square paving stones covered in snow doing their best impersonation of a bar of white chocolate. 220123
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raze snow, snow, and more snow. 220124
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past the last of today's hoarfrost stubbornly refusing the sun's invitation to rejoin the atmosphere. 220124
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raze chimneys reborn as smokestacks in shadow form. 220125
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past the snow has relaxed to gentle humps on the peaks of roofs, shimmering in the sun like so many crystals tossed across a beach. 220126
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raze snow-dappled streets and avenues stained with dirt, doing their best to match the colour of an uncertain sky. 220127
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kerry nothing. it was so bright and sunny that i had to shut my eyes. 220127
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tender_square a woman and her dog sporting versions of the same cherry jacket as they strode down a snowy street. 220128
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raze more synthetic_clouds. 220129
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tender_square a tree full of birdsong. 220129
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kerry my neighbors shoveling the sidewalks. 220129
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tender_square a murmuration of starlings swooping and swirling across a stretched-canvas sky. 220130
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raze footprints leading nowhere. 220130
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raze shadow and sun working together to paint diagonal lines on upright wooden beams too proud to admit how pretty they are. 220131
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tender_square the shadow of my peaked roof on the siding of my neighbor's house, aligned a few feet below the apex of their own roof, puzzle pieces on the precipice of locking into place. 220131
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raze all the ice that lines this neglected street, ignored by city_workers who are paid simply to exist. 220201
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tender_square archipelagoes of snow on the lawn. 220201
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raze what the rain did to the ground and sky while i slept, not knowing how hard and unforgiving it'll be when next we meet. 220202
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tender_square a conifer’s caramel bark. 220202
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raze windshield wipers protruding like antlers from the head of a sleeping suv. 220203
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tender_square two adirondack chairs blanketed in snowflakes, awaiting the imprints our bodies will leave as we hold hands. we’re gazing at the boughs of drooping evergreens like heavy lashes falling before the spell of sleep. 220203
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tender_square stalactites of ice dripping and descending from the eaves. 220204
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raze the fists of snow-covered trees, reaching for warmth they won't find on a morning like this. 220204
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raze two black squirrels stretching their legs and snaking down a hulking angiosperm in concert with each other. 220205
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tender_square the ground glittering with 12-pointed stars. 220205
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raze silhouettes of smog wending their way across the inscrutable face of a brown brick building. 220206
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raze a bud of snow growing out of the end of a twig, fashioned by its falling into the shape of a jumbo marshmallow. 220207
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unhinged quail scrambling from one scrubby bush to another, their silly little headdresses bobbling 220207
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raze a woman in a dark blue coat and knit cap limping toward her hatchback. 220208
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past a cold grey sky contradicted by the implied mildness of big fluffy snowflakes gently falling. 220208
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raze a neighbour determined to knock every last fragment of ice and snow off of her suv. 220209
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tender_square the mail truck as it puttered away from my house. 220209
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raze three vertically stacked windows, all of them different colours. up top, cobalt blue. beneath that, dull gold. and on the bottom, a box of black waiting for someone to light it up with all the hues they carry. 220210
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raze the tired sigh of a still-slick street. 220211
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raze a pair of nesting holes built by woodpeckers who've long since moved on. 220212
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raze a light dusting of sugar on every rooftop. 220213
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tender_square the blur of red tents on a frozen kent lake poised for ice fishing. 220213
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raze those two squirrels again, sharing the same branch, singing "my furry valentine" as only they can. 220214
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raze white cars failing to blend in with the cold camouflage all around them. 220215
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raze a tiny brown leaf that's made its home on the powdered canopy that covers me. 220216
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tender_square the waxing gibbous moon radiating in the lowest left corner of a second-floor pane as I stood at the bottom of the stairs, light calling me to rise. 220216
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tender_square morning mist from the intermix of warmed ground sponging cool rain. 220217
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raze a woman whose snow shovel matched her coat. two specks of gold in a sea of white. 220218
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tender_square the moon’s luminescence on a pristine pashmina of snow before it was momentarily dimmed by a sweep of dryer-sheet clouds. 220218
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tender_square at 3 am, a whiteout band of snow with particulate so fine it resembled fog, rendering neighbors houses invisible. 220219
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raze what last night's winter storm left behind. 220219
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raze a dirty block of ice. 220220
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tender_square the yolk of sun breaking across a blue diamond pan sky. 220220
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raze the sun making a flashlight out of a car's passenger side rear_view_mirror, burning a wordless promise into the prism of my eyes. 220221
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raze shit. i just meant to type "passenger side mirror". talk about getting your mirrors mixed up. 220221
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raze the bisected white beard rainfall hasn't yet shorn from the still-green earth. 220222
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tender_square the trees shivering with cold sweat. 220222
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past blurred city views as ice coats the pane. 220222
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raze a single minute plucked from the fourteen hundred and forty that will make up this day. a bevy of seconds teeming with untapped potential. 220223
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past branches cloaked in ice, as if covered by a science fictional energy shield. 220223
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tender_square a latte lake in the backyard basin, gradually turning to ice. 220223
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raze blue-grey fractures in the sleepy skyway. 220224
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tender_square two deer grazing on a highway median of browned grass. 220224
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past the first flakes of the next fall 220225
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tender_square four black squirrels scurrying along a fence. 220225
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tender_square a circus of squirrels balancing on high wire. 220226
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raze the curves carved into a tarp of bleached crystals by synthetic rubber. 220226
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raze a bird perched on the head of a dormant streetlight, watching the world wake up. 220227
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tender_square a leaf surrendering itself to the wills of wind. 220227
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past a last brilliant spike of daylight shining through the belfry of the ukranian cathedral. 220227
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raze the thinnest clouds i've ever seen. aircraft engine exhaust trails in no rush to fade from view. 220228
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raze a furry little explorer taking halting steps across the thoroughfare that separates his home from mine. 220301
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tender_square contractors surveying the property next door. 220301
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raze an abandoned office chair. 220302
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tender_square the shadowplay of naked oaks decorating a grand brick building. 220302
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raze a city worker actually working, if only for a moment.

i almost fainted. 		220303
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tender_square a lilac sky with purple cuts of cloud, evenly spaced. 220303
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past crows making their daily commute across the early dawn painted sky. 220304
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tender_square george_bush waving her bouncy and beautiful tail while she perched in a tree. i lifted my hand and waved back to her. 220304
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raze winter crowns set against an_oil_painting_sky. 220305
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raze the slow-spreading stain of moss on ribbed brown skin. 220306
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tender_square vagrancies of litter in the blond, wilted grasses of an arid hillside. 220307
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tender_square an operatic robin singing from the sleeping garden. 220308
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tender_square peach cobbler clouds. 220309
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past bands of colour rising out of the western horizon: red, peach, yellow, blue. and then repeated in the clouds: yellow, peach, red. 220309
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raze ultraviolet light filtered through the crossed wires of a curious cloud-constructed colander. 220310
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raze the moist eyes of threaded screws. 220311
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tender_square a ball of fire dribbling against the rooftop of my neighbor’s house. 220312
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raze slivers of silver static. 220313
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raze a feral shrub of snowmelt. 220314
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raze shadows lengthening as the sun begins to lose its nerve. 220315
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raze a discarded blue face mask slouching against the curb. 220316
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tender_square three glorious grackles in flight, their feathers leaving a shimmery rainbow streak across my field of vision. 220316
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past last week's snow snaking a curling path down the road, bypassing every drain on its route. 220316
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raze two blurred black birds, misted by motion. 220317
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tender_square ice floes drifting on a river while pedestrians ambled in shorts and tanks on the waterfront trail. 220317
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raze a mosaic of twigs in the startled grass. 220318
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raze segments of pavement the rain couldn't get at. an accidental sketch of a small, strange car. 220319
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tender_square a sheer curtain of fog dulling the sharp peaks of rooftops and blurring the limbs of au natural branches. 220319
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raze the reflection of an unshielded incandescent bulb, doubling and dancing in its own light. 220320
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raze a black squirrel with a mouthful of shoots and blades of yellowed grass gathered from my front lawn. i watched him run across_the_street before disappearing into his den. 220321
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past a cat staring down at me, which was at first disorienting until i remembered i work in the basement now. 220321
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tender_square a bevy of birds bathing in an impromptu lake left by rainfall. 220321
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raze two robins probing the soil for insects. 220322
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past the raised garden beds slowly emerging from their snowy blankets. 220322
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raze gutters brimming with clouded rainwater. 220323
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kerry the first daffodil blooming 220323
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tender_square george_bush surveying her kingdom from the stump of a felled tree. 220323
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raze two skies stitched together — one dark and foreboding, the other blue and bright. not cancelling each other out, but locked in a silent collaboration. 220324
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raze a bicycle_ghost signalling before the turn. 220325
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raze spring's first snow. 220326
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tender_square a wound of sky bleeding sunlight through thick-skinned clouds. 220327
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raze a bundled-up westie on a leash, leading its human home. 220328
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tender_square a man bending over to capture a small piece of paper in the net of his fingers and giving up when the wind had its own ideas. 220328
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past a cedar waxwing in the cedar. a bit early in the season for one, but the early bird gets the best nesting spots. 220329
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tender_square a tubular plastic bag with bright blue ends filled with wind, rolling down the lane. 220329
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raze a black_and_white cat cleaning itself. 220330
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past a variation on the theme, i looked over as a truck loaded with landscaping gear drove by in time to see a tiny dog jumping playfully at the window. 220330
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tender_square arbor vitae writhing through an exorcism of wind. 220331
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raze the gold shimmer of a potted plant on a window_sill fifty feet away. 220401
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tender_square the muted bloom of a thousand canary crocuses. 220401
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tender_square an inquisitive blue jay pecking at the cells of a vacant wasp nest on my porch. 220402
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tender_square george_bush and stubs battling it out over nuts, balancing on the branches of a precarious hibiscus bush like american gladiators while screeching at one another. 220403
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raze a wet bird shaking the water from its wings. 220404
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raze the shadow of my next-door neighbour's sapling painting something pretty on the street. 220405
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tender_square a burn-off of silk fog as the sun rose. 220405
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raze a solitary robin on my front lawn, staring right at me. 220406
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raze a tipped-over garbage pail with its lid five feet away. 220407
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tender_square a low band of navy stratus impersonating a mountain range beyond the tree tops.

a grackle tossing damp, dead leaves in search for something living. 		220407
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raze a long, thin forefinger that fell from a tree, standing crooked at the curb, with nothing but its own defiance to prop it up. 220408
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past fog, frosted roofs, and the timid morning sun slowly burning both away. 220409
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epitome of incomprehensibility Dad trying to teach Shiloh to play fetch. He will happily chase and grab a thrown object (stick or ball) but won't want to let go. 220409
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tender_square the sun stabbing through shutters. 220410
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tender_square the sky shot with a lightning switch that disappeared so quick i was sure it was a trick of my eyesight. 220411
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raze a crow flying with a piece of bread in its mouth. 220412
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raze a swollen sky promising rain. 220413
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raze all the colour coming back. 220414
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tender_square two stately german shepherds wearing ridiculous neon glow necklaces (one pink, one green) while they dragged their head-lamp wearing human down the street in civil twilight. 220414
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raze the shifting shadows of lateral branches buckled by the breeze. 220416
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raze a grey squirrel digging for gold in the grass. 220417
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tender_square a bicyclist's butt crack. 220418
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raze stray patches of snow the sun hasn't melted yet, salting the summit of every house i can see. 220419
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raze a spotted dog lifting its leg to piss on a tree. 220420
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raze a tiny spider on the other side of the glass. 220421
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raze twenty brown bags of leaves. 220422
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raze green hair growing back on trees that have spent the last few months bald and despondent. 220423
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raze a wrinkled receipt. a rejected reminder of something already eaten or forgotten. 220424
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raze a pointillist painting of red and brown sun-dried building blocks. 220425
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raze a dismantled paper bag. 220426
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raze a dirty trash bin with a downturned mouth. 220427
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raze a city of windsor truck going nowhere, doing nothing. like every other day. 220428
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raze two female cardinals. red and gold sisters. they paused for a moment in mid-air before dazzling me with the brilliant collaborative blur of their flight. 220429
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raze grass sprouting from cracks in the concrete. 220430
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tender_square a woman looking fly in a lavender suit. 220430
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tender_square a thriving and wet landscape slaked of thirst. 220501
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tender_square barbara_bush (the squirrel) ground hunting for nuts. 220502
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raze a prelude to the coming rain. 220503
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tender_square a pedestrian trotting across the natural notes of a white-keyed crosswalk while impatient town cars blew sharp horns. 220503
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raze small white gifts left_behind by birds who sat on the shingles of my roof. 220504
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raze a silent songbird dancing in the street. 220505
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raze the unsweetened cinnamon of misplaced marl. 220506
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tender_square the granite and limestone hills of austin covered by a mist laden with cold drops of overnight dew. 220506
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tender_square haze like a film of yellowed smoke. it's 8 am and already 76 degrees in austin. 220507
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raze a medley of manicured fescue. 220508
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raze a baby spider hanging from the screen on the other side. 220509
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tender_square a beetle methodically making its way towards mulch. 220510
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raze two cream-coloured dogs walking side by side. 220511
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raze a man testing the limits of what his lawnmower is willing to do. 220512
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tender_square texas cattle lying in a salvage of shade. 220512
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raze that same sapling, still doing its steady sideways dance. it's got leaves now like you wouldn't believe. 220513
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raze sixteen staggered red flowers. 220515
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raze a single silver-haired dandelion with a curved spine. 220516
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tender_square a shirtless man popping a wheelie on a motorized quad through the intersection of tchoupitoulas and andrew higgins. 220516
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past an overgrown lilac bush weighed down by its...err...lilac-coloured flowers. its sweet springtime scents subtly filling the kitchen. 220517
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tender_square an obscene red and yellow fumigation tent draped over an enormous st. charles avenue mansion. (i wonder if they were poisoning formosan termites.) 220517
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raze grey plastic containers collecting clear broth from the aerial watercourse. 220518
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raze the flicker of sunlight filling a garden lantern's cage. 220519
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raze a man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt beneath a denim jacket, walking the smallest dog i've ever seen. 220520
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tender_square a man with his arm casually wrapped around a woman as they were dragged down the street by her huge german shepherds. 220521
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raze magic. 220522
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raze my neighbour staring at his lawn like it's some sort of ancient scroll that holds all the secrets of the universe. 220523
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raze the sun casting a shadow that looks exactly like a prosthetic leg, when i know it's supposed to be a streetlight. 220524
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raze that grey squirrel again. 220525
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raze a bull-necked blue box on wheels. 220526
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raze a melange of wet maple seeds. 220527
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raze promising signs of floof. 220528
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raze a robin skipping through sod. 220529
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raze a woman and her mother walking a black_and_white english bulldog and a french mastiff. 220530
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raze a yellow stripe running through the visor of the hat hiding the top half of a smiling man's face. 220531
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tender_square a crane fly on the pane, its extended wings a milky marble of interlocked shapes. 220531
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raze a fedex truck delivering something i wasn't expecting to see until friday. 220601
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raze lazy morning rain. 220602
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tender_square a teenage boy’s steady cycling in the center of the street while both hands typed a message on his cell phone. (that’s like tour de france level shit.) 220603
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raze a woman watering her lawn. 220604
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raze a dark blue van backing up. 220606
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raze a coffee-coloured air conditioner slung low in the arms of a wizened window. 220607
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raze a solitary moth. 220608
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raze a chubby robin chirping to greet the morning. 220609
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tender_square a comely cardinal perched by the kitchen ledge, trying to get inside. 220609
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raze a sparrow jab stepping its way to a potential spot in next year's nba draft. 220610
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tender_square a woman jogging at dawn and waving her arms wildly to signal the sun. 220612
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raze a near-total absence of wind. 220613
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tender_square clara the bunny investigating the turtle dish for dinner. 220613
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raze hundreds of hawthorn berries in bloom. 220614
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tender_square two robins fracking wet ground with their beaks in the hopes of extracting worms. 220614
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raze a garbage can that lost its balance and puked up all it held after having too much to drink. 220615
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raze a woman with two canes walking in the rain, keeping pace with a street cleaner. 220616
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past a golden balloon, possibly an L or a 7, that "like leaves before the wild storm winds fly, when it met with an obstacle took to the sky." it then dropped in a neighbours backyard. 220616
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tender_square a black-bibbed bird boring into the earth. 220617
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raze a long leg of road littered with the small stones of some generous aerial fruit. 220618
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tender_square a bearded man in a floral dress having a marilyn_monroe moment on the street corner. 220618
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raze three quarters of the furry family of four i keep an eye on from my side of the street. 220619
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raze a hatchback's left turn signal telegraphing the driver's intentions. 220620
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raze that same little spider from two months ago, still plotting its next move. 220621
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raze three men in orange and yellow, pissing our tax dollars away with shit-eating grins on their faces and plastic takeout coffee cups pressed against their damp palms. 220622
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past a spindly rogue maple pushing its enterprising new growth through the canopy of lilacs. 220623
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raze the same maple_seed that's been hanging out on my roof for a good few months now, impervious to the elements. 220624
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raze my face reflected back at me. 220625
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tender_square a black squirrel skipping to the squares of an invisible hopscotch that only he could see. 220625
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raze a distant set of sleeping sprinklers. 220626
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tender_square a blackbird soaring in an open sky. 220626
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raze the beige and red bodies of departing vehicles. 220627
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tender_square couples seated on park benches watching the sunset at st. rose beach. 220627
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raze another female cardinal. she perched on stephanie's fence and stared straight at me before flying away. 220628
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raze a robin running in the rain. 220629
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tender_square a group of masked students cross-legged on a knoll while an older masked woman made exaggerated arm movements as she stood in front of them, like a cult leader. 220629
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raze both of hoppy's_children lounging on the lawn of a woman who broke up with her boyfriend on valentines_day five years ago. 220630
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raze a leaf skidding across the street like a green air hockey puck. 220701
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kerry a squirrel sprawled out on the top of my neighbor's trellis taking a nap in the sun. 220701
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raze grass made golden brown by the toaster oven that calls itself the sun. 220702
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raze three ceramic flower pots stacked on top of one another. 220703
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tender_square a man and a woman with shopping carts parked in front of the closed bakery, sharing a meal at an outdoor table. 220704
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raze the rising dust of a new day. 220705
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tender_square an obnoxiously enormous rv that’s currently being inhabited in my neighbour’s driveway (they have yet to move into the actual house. they bought the property in february.) 220706
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raze two still-sleeping plastic boxes spooning, red behind blue. 220707
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tender_square a robin having a spa day in a puddle-filled pothole. 220708
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raze a tiny green insect that might have been a thrip, landing right in front of my face and strutting on the other side of the glass when i checked to see if either of hoppy's_children were lounging in the back yard. 220709
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tender_square george_bush on her throne stump, holding a skinny cob of pine cone to her mouth, shuttling it left and right across her teeth like she was the floofiest harmonica player that’s ever lived. 220710
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raze a man in a blue t-shirt and matching shorts riding his bicycle down the street, his mind following some other paved path i couldn't see. 220710
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raze my landlord, wearing dark sunglasses to hide the emptiness that lives behind his eyes. 220711
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tender_square a baby groundhog eating clover and lurching for cover. 220711
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raze a bouquet of brown foliage edged with an islet of green. 220712
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raze two robins guzzling rain. 220713
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raze an airplane diminished by distance and made to look like a child's toy. 220714
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tender_square four fighter jets in flight formation. 220714
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raze six squirrels — four on the opposite side of the street, and two on my lawn, cautiously accepting the food i left for them. 220715
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tender_square from a hundred yards away, an eagle’s nest overtaking an oak, off a field along highway 22. 220716
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raze a lonely sack of fallen foliage standing as tall as its paper legs will allow. 220717
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raze an assemblage of lavender and white floral faces. 220718
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raze stephanie's_toilet. 220719
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raze five starlings searching for sustenance. 220720
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raze a coat of dark blue paint supplied by yesterday's short-lived storm. 220721
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tender_square a blue jay discriminating between an almond and a peanut from the turtle dish. 220722
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raze an empty bike rack on the back of a powder grey suv. 220723
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past my neighbour, an older single man, desperately hauling a motley collection of stuffed animals in off his porch. his adult son is visiting for the week, but out, and i wonder if he was airing old friends to be re-offered as future grandchildren's snuggles. 220723
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raze one yellow leaf asleep in an ocean of emerald reeds. 220724
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raze pointless noise personified. 220725
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raze a woman in a pink shirt and jeans rolled up past the elbows of her legs, walking like she'd just learned how. 220726
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tender_square a slick spill of hot pink sopped up by clouds. 220726
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raze two screaming men standing inches apart. 220727
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raze a driveway being torn up and replaced for no good reason at all. 220728
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tender_square a blue jay teetering on a sprig of hibiscus, angling for a peanut as he waits for a chipmunk to stuff his cheeks and scurry. 220728
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tender_square a perspective of my street from doug’s point-of-view. 220729
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raze a zebra print shirt draped over a pear-shaped patio chair. 220730
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raze a bald man wearing two shades of blue. 220731
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raze the blank canvas of an expensive new driveway still settling. 220801
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tender_square men in hideous neon green tees shifting the landscape with machinery. 220801
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raze two jugs of water being delivered, their diaphanous blue bodies sparkling in the sun. 220803
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tender_square a grey sky foreboding showers. 220803
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raze the dented hip of a white van. 220804
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tender_square streaks of sweat blotting out the scenes beyond. 220804
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tender_square sunshine upon exiting the darkness of the windsor-detroit tunnel, after the entire drive to the border was overcast and portending rain. 220805
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raze a man too engrossed in his phone to look both ways before crossing the street. 220806
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tender_square a big yellow swallowtail fluttering against glass. 220806
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raze two green leaves tumbling onto the sloped roof of a neighbour's shed, one after the other. 220807
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tender_square a parade of three separate women in sleeveless shirts letting their upper arms soak some unexpected sun. 220808
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raze a bicycle_ghost buttressed by red and white waterproof lights, allowing him to see_and_be_seen. 220809
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raze the ember in the corner of a car's left eye. 220810
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tender_square an excavator getting under the pavement’s skin. 220810
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raze two women trying to direct three dogs with their own ideas about where the walk should take them. 220811
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raze a long line of white cars. 220812
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tender_square a downy blue jay calling his posse down from the treetops for peanuts. 220813
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raze a welsh terrier stopping for a second to sniff my lawn. 220815
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tender_square a skyscape of cumulus clouds pierced by a five-story church steeple. 220815
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raze two cyclists riding so close together, i was sure they were sharing a tandem bicycle until they moved just far enough apart to prove me wrong. 220816
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raze an angry-looking woman carrying a squirt bottle. 220817
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tender_square a blackbird emerging from the womb of a dark tunnel, shepherding me under its wingspan. 220818
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tender_square a black squirrel and a grey squirrel somersaulting in a ball of conjoined floof. 220819
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raze laughter in the rain. 220820
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tender_square a knot of sparrows aligned on rooftop, flight-taking with a roar of circular saw. 220821
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raze a man with a baseball cap carrying a six-pack. 220822
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past a white hat slowly turning blue on a table as the colour transferred across a rain puddle from an open green marker. 220823
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raze the shifting shades_of_summer. 220825
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tender_square interchangeable boys and interchangeable girls; shirtless in board shorts and backwards ball caps, boobs bouncing in bikini tops with acid-wash cutoffs. frat and sorority pledge season is upon us. 220825
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raze three men listening to rap rock and putting a new roof on a house that didn't need one. 220826
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tender_square several light cycles come and go as i waited to cross clogged intersections. 220826
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raze another one of those faces_in_unexpected_places. 220827
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raze a mystery. 220828
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raze a sheepdog barking at a tree. 220829
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tender_square convulsing trees. 220829
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raze fallen branches. scattered leaves. summer_storm casualties. 220830
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tender_square a sea of students drifting with the current. 220830
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raze a flock of passing shadows. 220831
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raze a man in a shiny black convertible driving like a maniac. 220901
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raze a pair of wandering bears wearing people clothes. 220902
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raze thunderbolt splooting on stephanie's fence. 220903
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raze a certain storm brewing in the heart of a cloudless broth. 220904
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tender_square a shirtless man jogging without shoes on cement.

another man riding an electric scooter while his open housecoat billowed behind him. 		220905
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past high schoolers walking to their first day back, slowly transitioning into elementary aged kids as the morning moves forward. 220906
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raze two robins strolling side by side. 220907
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raze signs advertising the names of a motley crew of soulless sycophants and sociopaths who are running for city council this term. 220908
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raze three blue jays taking turns stealing food that's been promised to another species. 220909
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tender_square people all around me driving like fucking maniacs. 220909
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raze a visitor. 220913
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tender_square brume snuffing streetlights. 220914
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tender_square maize and blue members dressed for saturday service in the cult of mighican football. 220917
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raze a friend feeling their way through the morning. just like me. 220918
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tender_square a black squirrel staring back at me. 220918
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raze pickets of pine wet with what dawn designed under cover of darkness. 220919
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raze nothing worth noting. 220920
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tender_square a dhl delivery made from a plainclothes car. 220920
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raze the prettiest flames flickering in an otherwise static sky. 220921
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raze death a little too close to home. 220922
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tender_square a man holding a long ladder as he cycled one-handed. 220922
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raze one blue_jay following another. 220923
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tender_square a neighbour hosing off his back car tires, like the vehicle was a dog with dirty paws getting mud on the driveway. 220923
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raze danger defeated by daring. 220924
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raze a woman teaching her daughter the ins and outs of illegal parking. 220925
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raze the windwhipped ligaments and tendons of three tired trees. 220926
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raze pockets of moisture i keep mistaking for something more gruesome. 220927
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tender_square sunshine. 220927
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tender_square flecks of algae on the gabled roof like jackson pollock’s “untitled (green silver).” 221001
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raze the sun, still an hour away from setting, bathing everything in its vivid gold glow. 221002
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tender_square a munchkin cat in a hot pink harness taking a shit in my backyard, the ground-scratching her remains to strengthen the stench of her territory marking. 221002
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raze a white car that had no business shining so bright at this time of night. 221005
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raze the lid of some small garbage pail that's nowhere to be found. 221006
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tender_square a japanese maple transmuting from gold to garnet. 221007
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past the almost full moon shining through a thin cloud with a rainbow halo surrounding it. 221007
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raze a squirrel at the back right corner of the fence doing his best impression of a hedgehog. 221008
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past the first few rain drops painting a connect the dots activity on the back patio. 221009
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tender_square maurice the squirrel perched on the plastic footstool. 221010
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raze a man carrying a ladle and a meal shrouded in silver. 221011
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raze a three-way conversation taking place in the middle of the road. 221013
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tender_square a line of cars snaking at a stoplight that refused to change. 221013
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kerry a green-faced witch with a peaked black cap and pointy boots trying to climb into my neighbor's upstairs window. 221014
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tender_square a red-headed woodpecker trying to pierce the dense tissue of a walnut shell while a stumped blue jay looked on. 221015
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raze someone hoping for the early bird special. 221016
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tender_square what i thought was a burglar stalking my neighbour’s property at seven a.m., but in actuality was my neighbour returning home from some kind of early exercise regimen. how did i discern the hooded figure? it seemed highly unlikely that a burglar would spend time adjusting the position of halloween inflatables on the front lawn before breaking and entering. 221018
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tender_square people and their pooches. 221019
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raze the indifferent embrace of an early_winter. 221020
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tender_square a baby squirrel learning how to forage. 221020
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tender_square sparrows signaling in a smoke tree. 221021
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raze someone saying goodbye. 221022
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tender_square a white truck tugging a trailer full of tree stumps. 221023
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raze the soft terror of inertia. 221024
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past a crisp red maple leaf slowly float down to land on top of the pile i raked up earlier this morning. 221024
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raze evicted leaves cartwheeling in the wind. 221025
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raze an old man wearing dark glasses to soften the sting of a sun that's barely there. 221026
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raze the sky making promises it knows it can't keep. 221027
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tender_square a tree swallow trying to get in. 221027
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raze a medley of unclaimed walnut fragments. 221028
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tender_square honeyed leaves lilting in lemonade light. 221028
...
tender_square a brume-tinted landscape like the poster for “the exorcist.” 221029
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tender_square trick-or-treaters before dark. 221031
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tender_square a man in a bullet-proof vest walking a dalmatian. 221103
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tender_square a woman with fuchsia hair and turquoise leggings. 221104
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tender_square a man at the bus stop concentrating as he rolled brown paint across his plaid-clad thighs. 221105
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raze a tiny explorer hugging the curb as they searched for the perfect spot to stash their stolen treasure. 221106
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tender_square a man using a leaf blower...during the windiest day of the year. 221106
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raze the early encroachment of night. 221107
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past a full moon in deep red during the lunar eclipse. 221108
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Soma a woman bundled up against the cold in a puffy jacket and a denim skirt, carrying a bible and a set of pamphlets. 221109
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tender_square two hands flapping out of a car window, riding waves of wind. 221111
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tender_square the porch swing being rocked without an occupant. (the squirrels were jumping up on it to get my attention and scurrying away before i could catch them in the act.) 221113
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raze a sluggish sun fighting to be seen through windwhipped leaves. 221119
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tender_square a tire from a trailer being blown apart and unraveling against the shoulder at 76 mph. 221119
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raze the duvet stitched by last night's snowfall. 221120
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tender_square a tuxedo-wearing cat being rather undignified in its desperate pursuit of squirrels. 221122
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past unharvested kale shrugging off the year's first snow in the mild sun. 221123
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tender_square two chubster squirrels rejecting the black walnut thanksgiving feast i picked for them at the park. 221124
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raze two illegible white words on the side of a garbage pail. 221125
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tender_square a burgeoning pile of box refuse. 221125
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tender_square more frosted tips than n*sync along the lawn. 221126
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tender_square a very young boy lovingly patting the head of a polar bear decoration on his parent’s lawn. 221129
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tender_square an incredulous woman running after a large inflatable red ornament as it pinwheeled down the street. 221130
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raze the arrowheads of outstretched arms straining to meet skyline. 221201
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tender_square three teenagers trading and waving a small canadian flag. 221201
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tender_square a squirrel with black, tarnished fur, ass-deep in the downspout extender looking for food. 221202
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raze the frowning mouth of a broken twig. 221206
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raze the damp darkness of another cold december morning. 221207
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past a small flock of chickadees trying to find something to eat amongst the naked branches of the lilac bush. 221207
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raze the gold and red glow of an early christmas. 221208
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tender_square two black squirrels nibbling on one another in the nook of a tree. 221209
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raze "absolute comfort" on the side of a truck. 221212
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tender_square lemon light diminishing in a denim sky, and every black branch stencilling its veins to the scene. 221214
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tender_square cars speeding recklessly beside the boulevard when squirrels are crossing. 221215
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past a thin peach sky gradually lightening the sky in the east, as the overlap meteorological winter and astronomical fall enter their final few days. 221218
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past six people running through a snow covered field. 221218
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tender_square a caravan of brand new pacificas, their temporary yellow plates haphazardly hanging from rear wipers. 221220
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raze frosted flakes of sun-flecked foliage. 221221
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past someone biking by.

(roads are clear and dry, so why not! though i say this as someone with winter tires for his bike -- they cost less than a month pass for the unreliable bus.) 		221222
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past the main power line to the house whipping about violently in the wind. 221223
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raze the first white_christmas we've had in i don't know how many years. 221225
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tender_square a gaggle of geese brooding on three-day thickened ice in lakeview marina. 221225
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raze the artificial dawn that belongs to this season alone. 221226
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tender_square black squirrels emerging from their dens as dawn made a pink show of sky. 221228
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past lights on in the house behind us that has seemed abandoned for the (now more than) two years we've lived here. (my theory is it was occupied by an elder who lived in the front of the house. it recently sold, and the question was whether the buyers would live in it or tear it down and infill.) 221230
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past the unharvested kale reemerged from the snow. 221231
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tender_square a pale racoon fatter than a well-fed cat skirting the front garden. 230103
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tender_square a pewter sky giving way to partly cloudy with sneaking sunshine the further down i-94 east i drove. 230107
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raze christmas lights that haven't come down yet. 230111
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tender_square a black squirrel unfurling from a den, then changing its mind and going back inside to sleep in a bit more. 230114
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tender_square the silent sunday street as a shaken snow globe. 230122
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raze patches of dirt poking through yesterday's snowfall. 230123
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kerry a man entering tina's house. it's been empty for months. 230124
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raze the bleak baking powder meteorologists claimed wasn't going to rain down on us until this afternoon. 230125
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tender_square a grey squirrel alpine skiing down a snowy branch. 230125
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tender_square two wild turkeys crossing the road. 230127
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tender_square a red hatchback driving down the wrong side of the boulevard and cartoonishly filled with several large-breed dogs. 230202
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past a mountie cruiser slowly circling the neighbourhood, jurisdiction be damned. 230205
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tender_square steam rising off the rooftops when out came the sun and dried up all the rain. 230209
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tender_square two squirrels kissing in a treetop. 230210
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tender_square a toddler fred-flinstoning in a toy car. 230211
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tender_square an avid electric unicycler making his way down packard with a hockey bag slung across his back for the outdoor open skate at buhr park. 230212
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tender_square two boys on bicycles passing, both in colourful hoodies. one was slurpee blue with spikes for a famous ring-gathering video game hedgehog, the other was pineapple yellow with lightning striped ears from an animated monster franchise. 230213
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tender_square a tuxedo cat scratching its chin and its body against the concrete point of the neighbour's porch slab. 230214
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raze leaves doing their best to outrun the wild wind. 230215
...
tender_square squirrel parkour. 230216
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raze organic frosted glass. 230217
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tender_square a feral tuxedo cat severing a robin's vertebrae and tossing the lifeless bird into the air with its mouth. 230217
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tender_square squirrel fucking. 230218
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tender_square a bullmastiff with a colossal nut sack. 230220
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tender_square a fastidious neighbour stacking fallen branches in the boulevard. 230223
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raze the scars of a season i'm ready to be over. 230225
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raze the opposite of light. 230226
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tender_square more like i looked out a window and heard a hawk dive into glass while trying to catch another bird in its claws. 230301
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tender_square a strawberry-haired boy climb a mound of snow proudly, and dancing as he descended. he put even more emphasis and heart into his movements when he noticed he had an audience. (his mom looked toward my car and mouthed "sorry," but i wanted to roll down the window and say "never apologize; that boy's energy and vim is a gift.") 230305
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raze the footprints of friends. 230310
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raze a tired twig napping in the middle of the road. 230324
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past a red sky screaming warnings of an impending early spring snow storm. 230325
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tender_square a rabbit tiptoeing through the mud and between the shrubs, camouflaged by the mulch of decomposing leaves. 230401
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past big fluffy snowflakes falling onto the ice-encrusted knee high remnants of winter. 230403
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raze the ghosts of things still living. 230411
...
raze a woman wearing a pink crownless cap, made for a moment to look like a man's small child by the trickery of distance. 230412
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raze a blue sky bereft of clouds. 230413
...
raze a man in a black truck talking to his daughter as he drove away. 230416
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tender_square too many men flaunting their flabby naked torsos. 230416
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raze snow. in the middle of april. one day removed from having to turn the air_conditioner on. 230417
...
raze the last bits of sun fading behind a funeral procession of clouds. 230418
...
raze a bag of leaves that chose to spill its guts last_night when no one was around to listen. 230420
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raze a man with a beer gut bouncing a basketball in the middle of the street. 230424
...
raze two men walking their dogs, both of them indifferent to the shepherd's undisguised efforts to murder the shar pei. 230429
...
raze the dank detritus of dreams that have lost their way. 230430
...
raze five seagulls riding the wind like a wave. 230501
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tender_square a squirrel snacking on big bunch of fallen maple whirlers. 230504
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raze a robin gliding over the head of a stock-still starling. 230505
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past water flowing calmly along the old aqueduct above, while it crashes and churns violently and breaks the banks of the main course below. 230509
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raze one squirrel following another into the cozy apartment they share. 230510
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raze a grey face peeking out of a cavity den. 230512
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tender_square an impatient audi cutting me off in morning traffic. 230512
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past the early morning sun died a brilliant bright red by alberta's ashes. 230515
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tender_square a wild turkey trotting along the shoulder of e.c. row. 230522
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raze a group of people standing in the middle of the street, applauding a fireworks display. 230523
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tender_square a bearded man in the driver's seat of a parked pickup, door swung open, strumming a guitar at 7:30 in the morning. 230524
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raze a bald man wearing a shirt the same colour as mine, cutting the grass in the alley behind my house. 230525
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tender_square a baby racoon that wasn't sleeping on a highway shoulder. 230528
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past water flowing in three different directions. 230529
...
raze a single gold face in a sea of green. 230530
...
raze a sprinkler creating the illusion of episodic rain. 230531
...
tender_square a man steering a small tractor down a residential street, timmy's in hand. 230531
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tender_square two black squirrels on their hind paws, boxing one another. 230601
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raze my neighbour sitting in a hammock and staring into the flat face of his phone. 230602
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past a sepia toned world with the clear lines of the apartment tower a few blocks away fading to pencil sketches. 230606
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raze the most robust spider i've seen in years. 230610
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raze a robin drinking rainwater, spurred on by the frantic flapping of its own wings. 230611
...
raze a furry friend shaking off the last vestiges of sleep. 230613
...
past a sprinkler watering the grass despite the steady rain. 230614
...
raze a stranger scurrying away after shoving a brochure for fibre internet through the front_door. 230619
...
raze a moth that resembled a miniature burrito. 230621
...
raze uneaten fruit. 230623
...
raze a cleft of light between two clouds. 230624
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raze an unidentified dark object on the second step of a glorified stranger's front_porch. 230625
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tender_square four baby black squirrels playing a rousing edition of ring-around-the-rosie up a maple tree. 230626
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past torrents of rain, flashes of lightning, drawing the burnt forest from the air. 230626
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raze the shadow of a bird flying by. 230630
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tender_square a glamorous mom in a dramatic sun hat, cutoff shorts, and a draped crochet top holding the hand of a toddler while she pushed a baby carriage. 230701
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raze lights left on to ward off evil spirits. 230702
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tender_square a man in a white tank, sunglasses, and cowboy hat, riding a john deere mower down the sidewalk in the middle of downtown. 230703
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raze a sparrow searching for food in the roof's rain gutter. 230704
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raze the vague shape of one bird chasing another. 230705
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raze a magazine rolled up like an unhung poster. 230706
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kerry a girl sitting on her dad's motorcycle 230706
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raze a little girl driving a white electric jeep while her dad walked behind her. 230707
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Lycanthrope Sitting before a window in the rain.

No matter the ways life has
Grown wildly, branched and tangled
And vined in unknowable directions.
I will always mostly be the boy
On a particular day
Kneeling at attention
Like they asked you to at church
Arms over the back of the sofa
Looking out the window of
The family home
At thick raindrops falling against
A stone grey sky.
The sound of them filling me
With the singular continuity
Of endless variations,
A plash here, a plish there, over a steady hymnal drone.
The rain rolled down the steep grade
Of our street, collecting in the curbside
Drains like rivers and flashfloods
In miniature.
All the debris, all the loose facts of yesterday
Rushed off to leave the wet and enduring.
I remember thinking about all the sprouts that might grow when the rains passed. Where they might and how they might, which crack in the sidewalk or pot on a porch might host them.
And in many ways I'm still there
When the world was becoming
And I was under its sounds 		230707
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raze tenderness in an unexpected place. 230713
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tender_square two squirrels bringing their fiery passion to my firepit. 230716
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raze an undelivered package. 230717
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raze a neighbour's garbage pail the wind blew all the way across_the_street. 230727
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raze two men awkwardly tarping a roof. 230728
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raze pink and white petals dislodged by yesterday's short_lived summer_storm. 230729
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tender_square a strung out woman without shoes stepping too close to the curb edge of a busy street. 230731
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past a cloud looking like a diamond leaping in an infinite blue sea. 230801
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raze a delivery truck driver pleading with a plywood crate. 230802
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tender_square a braless woman with pendulous breasts lighting up a cig as she ensconced her child in a buggy. 230802
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raze a possum prying food from the living floor beneath its feet. 230805
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raze a curly-haired child throwing wildflowers in the street. 230806
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past a river where once there was a road. 230807
...
tender_square a guy on a bmx bike with two cigarettes sticking out of his mouth, giving a recognition nod to a full-face helmeted guy on a crotch rocket. 230807
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e_o_i Drama_of_the_bird_feeder, and, in the backyard behind it, a squirrel hopping up onto the wooden armrest of a weathered chair to groom itself, rubbing paws over face and then smoothing over its tail.

The first part looked oddly humanlike - how a person in a hurry would wash their face. 		230808
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raze a woman walking in the rain without an umbrella. 230817
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tender_square a man scratching his junk through athletic shorts outside of the tennis courts. 230817
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tender_square a man gunning a motorcycle with a barbie doll glued to the seat behind him on eastbound e.c. row. 230824
...
raze a woman wearing light blue boxer pants, staring at her house key as if it might come to life and speak to her. 230825
...
tender_square a red mylar balloon ascending into the atmosphere. 230901
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raze two city_workers treating a bucket truck like a toy. 230902
...
tender_square clean laundry floating on a line. 230902
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raze a grey-haired man in cargo shorts walking a collie. 230903
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tender_square a woman wipe her greasy face with a napkin and then discard it on the grass without a second thought. 230906
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raze a nurse still in her scrubs. 230907
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raze a simple task made much more convoluted than it needed to be. 230908
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raze a green truck gathering leaves. 230909
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past a man attempting to prune a bush with an axe. 230909
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raze jerry and his wife walking hand in hand. 230911
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raze a_sketch_the_rain_made. 230912
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tender_square a computer chair on the roof of an abandoned rest home. 230912
...
tender_square a squirrel sneaking like a burglar across the fence with a huge walnut in it's mouth. 230914
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raze incompetence in action. 230915
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raze a girl with a pink shirt and a blue helmet riding a purple tricycle with white wheels while her father trailed behind her on foot. 230916
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raze a yellowjacket enjoying a brisk morning swim. 230917
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raze a boy kicking an unhatched walnut down the street like a soccer ball. 230919
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raze a stink bug walking across the other side of the glass. 230922
...
tender_square my face floating in the black mirror, illuminated by the electric glow of my computer screen. 230923
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raze a phone taking its human for a walk. 230926
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raze a door in the sky. 230927
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raze three dark foragers getting an early start. 230928
...
raze the gauzy glow of seven solar lanterns. 230929
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raze halloween decorations. 230930
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tender_square a man in a grey sweatsuit warming up like rocky as he paraded intensely down the pedestrian overpass. 231001
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raze a three-way conversation i could only wonder about. 231003
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raze clumps of uncleaned dog shit at the edge of a neighbour's driveway. 231004
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raze a man doing his best not to blow_away. 231011
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raze more geese than i could ever hope to count. 231012
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raze a confused-looking woman getting out of her car. 231017
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raze a striped sparrow dancing across the concrete path. 231021
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raze a man wearing a bright yellow hoodie under a denim jacket. 231023
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raze a pair of roofers texting on the job, half-asleep on the bed of new shingles they were installing. 231024
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raze sparks flying. 231025
...
raze stubborn trees shedding their leaves at the wind's insistence. 231027
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Soma The space needle, softly glowing in the cool autumn night with the possibility of a life not my own 231027
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raze little big girl waving hello with her tail. 231028
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raze a couple contriving a way to carry a cooler while holding hands. 231029
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raze snow, almost two months early. 231101
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raze a collage of cold water and crushed leaves. 231109
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raze a weathered couple too busy staring at their phones to acknowledge each other. 231110
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raze a territorial dispute. 231112
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raze a dog trying to get back in through the front_door after being thrown outside and ignored. 231113
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raze a woman wearing purple pants beneath a black peacoat. 231114
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raze two dark, wet, shriveled leaves on the roof of my house. as sad as spent balloons. 231218
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raze fog as thick as falling feels. 231224
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Soma A man and woman arguing on their porch 231225
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raze a man pointing out a little bit of life moving around up in a tree to the delight of his two young daughters. 231230
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raze the ghost of a puddle that's taken the shape of a country you won't find on any earthly map. 240107
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raze the temporary tattoos left_behind by melted snow. 240110
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raze winter's dandruff instead of rain. a welcome change. 240111
...
kerry the silhouettes of men on the roof 240111
...
raze hundreds of tiny footprints. 240113
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raze a home delivery in progress. 240116
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raze two men walking through a narrow doorway at the same time. 240119
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raze a yawning garage. 240122
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raze the world covered with wet ice. 240123
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raze a heavy haze the day hasn't been able to shake. 240125
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raze shattered shards of styrofoam. 240126
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kerry my neighbor riding away on his vintage motorcycle 240126
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raze more healthy trees being murdered and mutilated for no good reason at all. 240129
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raze an unfamiliar face in profile. 240201
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raze a mosaic of frost and fog. 240204
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raze one car parking while another drove away. 240210
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raze a sun-stung fedex driver carrying a heavy box on his shoulder. 240212
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raze a muzzled labrador retriever pissing on the trunk of a tree. 240215
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raze the quiet curve of a half-frozen road. 240217
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raze a horde of hungry sparrows. 240218
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raze a broken piece of styrofoam doing its best to pass for a pocket of snow. 240220
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past the reflection of the days last gasp burning bright in an eastern neighbour's window. 240220
...
past ice floating down the river. 240227
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raze an envelope gutted of its contents and abandoned at the lip of the driveway that brought it here. 240304
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raze empty recycling boxes rimmed with rain. 240314
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raze a doormat my eyes keep mistaking for an amazon package. 240315
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raze a few very curious sparrows. 240321
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raze a woman wearing headphones, her hair dyed the same shade of purple as her pants. 240324
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raze a screaming child on a scooter, with his parents a good fifty paces behind him. 240326
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raze a sign hammered into the dirt to make it known that the house on the corner has sold. 240331
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raze the sun sliding out of the sky. 240401
...
raze a woefully brief bunny visit (a floof-by, if you like). 240404
...
raze a very squirrel-shaped shadow conjured by a shrub. 240408
...
Soma That the night outside was brighter than inside my dim abode. 240408
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raze a man washing a tree. 240409
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raze a neighbour having his lawn rolled because he saw the guy across_the_street having *his* lawn rolled yesterday, and he doesn't want someone else's grass to look nicer than his does. 240420
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raze someone i hate talking to someone i've never seen before. 240421
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raze a white-crowned sparrow. 240426
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raze a garbage pail passed out in the middle of the road. 240509
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raze an mnsi truck. 240510
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raze weeds. 240513
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raze a woman whose scarf was a stark swirl of darkness above the brightness of her dress. 240515
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raze a sparrow listening to a robin's song. 240516
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raze a woman wandering through her back yard, searching for something to maim. 240604
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raze a man poking a tree with a stick. 240610
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raze a garden being stared at and silently asked to tend itself. 240611
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raze five foraging friends who will all be gone by the time i get outside. 240614
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raze a black_and_white cat, but only in my dreams. 240615
...
raze a stick my eyes mistook for a massive worm or a small snake. 240617
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raze a squirrel hanging from the trunk of a rain-ravaged tree, refusing to be driven back into their drey. 240625
...
raze my landlord peeling his shirt off and staring at it like he'd never seen it before and had no idea what it was for. 240626
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raze a man making_love to his lawn. 240630
...
raze a small spider climbing a strand of invisible silk. 240701
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raze an inattentive father who stopped staring at his phone long enough to prevent his little boy from running in front of a moving van by grabbing the top of his head, as if the toddler were a toy. 240702
...
raze a woman who would have been dressed completely in black, but for the white of her shoes. 240703
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raze two young rabbits grazing and playing. 240714
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raze the dampness dusk delivered. 240715
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raze a four-legged friend on the roof. 240724
...
raze a pocket of moisture in the shape of a person scratching the back of one leg and turning to look at something behind them. 240726
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raze a black wasp on the other side of the glass. 240729
...
raze the lights people leave on at night. 240801
...
raze the cardinal_couple, waiting for me. 240808
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raze a man who sat staring at his steering wheel for ten minutes, as if he was waiting for the car to drive itself. 240814
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raze a woman with short grey hair carrying a green bag. 240826
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raze an unwanted shelf on wheels and a potted plant. 240830
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raze a man plucking stray blades of grass from his lawn and flicking them onto the road. 240902
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raze a dog watering a lawn the old fashioned way. 240904
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raze a squirrel, a cardinal, and a rat having a polite conversation. 240910
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raze a kid on a kick scooter screaming as loud as her lungs would let her. 240911
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raze a man on his knees rearranging rocks at the base of a tree. 240912
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e_o_i From the window in Dorval Library, a squirrel barely a metre away in the bushes. It dug something out of the mix of woodchips and soil, then ran its paws over its head, sides, and tail, probably grooming.

When I looked up a few minutes later, it was arguing with another squirrel over who got to eat some other food. 		240912
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raze bobcats. not the animal, but two clueless men piloting clumsy machinery. 240913
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raze the grand parade of lifeless packaging. 240919
...
raze a curly-haired kid with a shovel in one hand and his phone in the other, eyes on the screen instead of his work. this is what passes for landscaping now. 240920
...
raze a long metal arm reaching out of the bed of a truck to grapple with a massive green storage bin. 240921
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raze unexplained pylons. 240926
...
raze a screaming blue_jay taking flight. 240928
...
raze a woman with sunburned arms raking invisible leaves. 241001
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raze two porch-perching potted plants i keep mistaking for people. 241016
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raze bloated garbage pails waiting to be gutted of their contents. 241017
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raze fragments of a front_door a new fridge wouldn't fit through. 241029
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raze a man who saw me and waved. 241108
...
raze someone who parked in the middle of the street and blocked traffic for twenty minutes so they could stare at their phone. 241109
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raze my landlord raking leaves onto the road. 241110
...
raze indecision on wheels. 241111
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raze the first_snow of this unforgiving fall. 241121
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