Tudek Triptych
I embrace the danger
of a bench
under the oak tree
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the quick-step rhythm
of park trail walkers
the slow march of breath
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in the pavilion is a child
with an air horn
I scan the skies for a meteor
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27 August 2022
State College PA
Category: Nature
watching the storm
from the darkness
of the driver’s seat
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21 August 2022
State College PA
fuzzy brain from the drive
soundwall of insect songs
at the trailhead
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20 August 2022
State College PA

just beyond the leaves the sky
just beyond the sky
the universe
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19 August 2022
Greensboro VT
on the face
of the water
the wind’s caress
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16 August 2022
Belvidere Pond
I hiked from the rim of the gorge
to the base of the falls
there’s a baby crying
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9 August 2022
Taughannock Falls
Trumansburg NY
on a whaling voyage
under an oak’s shade
suddenly: a finch!
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4 August 2022
State College PA
a raven in the canopy
watches as I pass
each to their own thoughts
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1 August 2022
State College PA
hiked up a mountain
still
can’t see the future
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31 July 2022
State College PA
a turkey vulture
plods across the sky
but doesn’t fall
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30 July 2022
State College PA
mysterious mushroom
on the picnic table
where will you take me?
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29 July 2022
State College PA
alone in the park
between rain showers
ants collaborate in the grass
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18 July 2022
Delanson, NY

summer wind shuffles
blades of grass
anywhere can be home
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3 July 2022
Tanglewood
Lenox MA

black squirrel on the trail
surfaces distant memories
of summer in Japan
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1 July 2022
Appalachian Trail
near Dalton MA
