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Alice Harper
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Poet, scientist, plant lover, cat mom.
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Specific collections that stuck with me: Ada Limon "Bright Dead Things",
Mary Oliver "12 Moons",
Mahmoud Darwish "The Butterfly's Burden"

Authors I enjoy generally: Sara Teasdale, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, absolutely anything, no misses.

Specific works that stay with me:
Keeping Things Whole, by Mark Strand In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body's been. We all have reasons for moving I move to keep things whole. Poem Without A Title, by Charles Simic I say to the lead Why did you let yourself Be cast into a bullet? Have you forgotten the alchemists? Have you given up hope In turning into gold? Nobody answers. Lead. Bullet. With names Such as these The sleep is deep and long.
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Summer bleeding out
Sugared exsanguination
Fall seeps into veins
A sugar maple leaf turning to Fall colors early. Crimson creeps into the leaf in a pattern etched by individual cell walls, slowly replacing the soft green.
September 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Linden in late bloom
Heady fragrance wreathing air
Spring still graces June
Pale yellow and mead scented blossoms of the Linden tree spray out from a rough rapid of deep green leaves as June lilts toward Summer.
June 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Petals confetti
Spring in rapture after storm
Sunlight dapples path
A paved path through a vibrant forest is speckled with petals. Gaps in the forest crown scatter pearls of sunlight along the trail.
May 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Chartreuse chandelier
Soft leaves tinkle through light breeze
Toasting warm Spring day
A linden tree early in leafing out for the year drinks up the bright sun in a, on a warm lightly clouded day filled with gentle breezes.
April 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Shell of winter cracked
Hillside hatches daffodils
Sunny yolk of Spring
A hillside covered in daffodils and English ivy. Along the edges of the image are daffodils with white outer petals and bright yellow inner trumpet. In the center of the image are daffodils with white outer petals and bright orange trumpets, very much resembling cracked eggs.
April 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Survivor of the Hindenburg having a cigarette while being loaded into the ambulance.
Survivor of the Hindenburg having a cigarette while being loaded into the ambulance
January 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Leaf litters cold ground
Fans farewell on Autumn wind
Golden ginkgo rain
Bright yellow ginkgo leaves adorn a wet sidewalk
November 22, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Shimmering chartreuse
Departing year's final toast
Short days no less bright
Towering tulip poplar trees tinge the forest floor in soft gold light. Some leaves hold on to green memories of summer still.
November 16, 2024 at 11:58 PM