MICHAEL ROLOFF Poems

SPRING POEM

The Robins are in good voice at 4: 30 a.m.
Yes the Robins are back in the mating game,
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El Niño has let us down, he’ill get a spanking, something only El Niña would like...

Weather Poem # 2: Puget Sound regarded as a large sink and Seattle as the drainage pit… [revised]
As a sink with slides open to all sides of the North Pacific...
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Señor Heron

Still still
There on two stilts
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On a bench in the park sits a Turk with a thickly bandaged finger: I am sitting on a bench in the park next to a Turk with a thickly bandaged finger: We are sitting on a bench in the park, I and a Turk with a thickly bandaged finger: A Turk with a thickly bandaged finger is sitting with me on a bench in a park.

We are sitting on a bench in the park gazing out on the pond, and I see something swimming in the pond, and the Turk is gazing out on the pond.
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