tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34494591748832652852023-06-20T05:38:28.011-07:00PebbleoriumJosephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-82314646137220564062014-03-12T09:59:00.000-07:002014-03-12T09:59:29.271-07:00Stitch or Dibble?<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I have sewing I want to do</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>yardage bought, pattern tested</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>but the world has gone all</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sunny balmy -</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>last chance to prune the pear</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and the green house is warm,</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I have sowing I want to do.</b></span><br />
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-70506890166866709542014-02-03T09:19:00.000-08:002014-02-03T09:20:31.200-08:00Lick It Quick!<div class="p1">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Cool drip slips </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>down the back of my little finger</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>maple syrup slithering </b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">off a toasted, buttered croissant</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>eyes-closed delicious.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-57280114246796877092014-01-18T10:58:00.000-08:002014-01-18T10:58:06.401-08:00Counter Still Life<div class="p1">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Red-lidded gallon jar with a </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>snow of fine flour on </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the clear glass shoulder,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>lump of shining dough</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>lying in scattered flour,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>scarred maple rolling pin</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with one handle frozen up.</b></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-71853434819175391212014-01-05T16:04:00.000-08:002014-01-05T16:05:54.002-08:00Tonight's Moon<div class="p1">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Tonight’s moon -</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Shallow white rice bowl</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>on black velvet.</b></span><br />
<br />Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-16888081355828744852013-04-08T17:28:00.000-07:002013-04-08T17:29:15.355-07:00Announcing April<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>In the roadside hawthorne top</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>on a twig between opening leaf wads</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a rufus sided towhee throws back it’s head</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>angles it’s beak wide against gray sky</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>blasts its musical plastic rattle whistle - </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>kddrrrreeeee!...kddrrrreeeee!...</b></span></span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">kddrrrreeee!</b></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-64424764428186451852013-04-06T12:27:00.003-07:002013-04-06T12:27:47.919-07:00April Afternoon
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Green gold west light</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>slanting across </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>stubby pasture grass</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>across pine slope</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>under indigo black </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>cloud bottoms.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-63994082366597073842013-03-08T11:32:00.000-08:002014-02-03T09:26:30.994-08:00Pruning<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I’ve been out in the damp gray</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>edge-of-freezing morning</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with my new red-gripped secateurs</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>puzzling through pruning the pear tree. </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Up the ladder to look at each twig</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>down the ladder to look at the whole tree.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Back up the ladder to snip here, snip there. </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>One decision after another,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Take it or leave it? This limb or that? </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Take out crossovers, take out verticals,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>take the obviously dead, and the worst</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>of the green and gray lichen crusted.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Try to shape branches for graceful reach</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>horizontally radiating from the trunk.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Most of the time there is no good choice</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>on this tree contorted by years of neglect </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and my own early mistakes. Breath deep.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>It doesn't have to be perfect</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>just take out the congestion</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and let light in to the heart.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-25310800894555570512013-03-01T00:30:00.000-08:002013-03-01T00:30:00.105-08:00After Waffles
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Purple blueberry syrup smears</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>in yellow plate’s concentric valleys.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-42565253517299952582013-02-28T00:30:00.000-08:002013-02-28T00:30:01.463-08:00On Being Seduced By the Hebrides
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I had not expected to fall so in love</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with an Atlantic isle</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>(being Pacific born, fully invested</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>in keeping faith with my own ocean.)</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>But the chartreuse, old gold </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and burnt ochre of the bogs,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the sienna and umber of stony hillocks</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the ultramarine ridges beyond,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the indigo wash of overcast and loch</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>tap deep into my being.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I love the twisting one lane roads</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the sheep lying on the verge (not shoulder)</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the white two story cottages</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with their black roofs,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the red telephone boxes -- </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>is the whole blessed country </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a movie set?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>And if I’m so affected from my own desk,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>by the Street View and Google Earth tour,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>what kind of a mess would I be</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>if I could smell the land, hear the waves</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>feel the wind, splash across a burn</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>hear the Gaelic in it’s native air...?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>If I could only get there!</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-73060658852641826152013-02-27T11:29:00.004-08:002013-02-27T11:29:41.241-08:00Not Much of a Fence
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Steel t-post faded to aloe green</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>pocked with rust</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>stands, not vertical but </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>perpendicular to the slope;</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>two widely spaced loose </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>strands of barbless twisted wire</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sag along to staples in a ponderosa </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>pine’s puzzle bark.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-12721504697586579152013-01-11T09:37:00.003-08:002013-01-11T09:37:57.143-08:00Grace
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Yesterday’s boot tracks</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>half effaced, softened</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>rounded by last night’s</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>new snow.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-7107805672356203992013-01-10T21:05:00.003-08:002013-01-10T21:05:40.730-08:00In the Dishpan
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Solitary scarlet mug</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>surrounded by fine </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>white bubbles.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-35047718471496330872013-01-07T11:38:00.001-08:002013-01-07T11:38:15.049-08:00Snow Lab
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Eight and a half inches</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and still falling, piling up.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Heavy, packable snow.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Snowball, snowman</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>monster fort snow.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Engineers in pacs and ski pants </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>bend over 5-gallon-bucket-</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>molded snow blocks arguing</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>packing technique and structure.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-85877904529331161062013-01-06T15:34:00.003-08:002013-01-06T15:34:18.148-08:00Shadow Like
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Bits of sunflower hull darken </b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a circle of snow below the feeder,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>gleaning juncos flit and bob.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-72631206434134635002013-01-03T23:22:00.003-08:002013-01-03T23:22:50.810-08:00Remaining Mysteries
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Half way to out to the garage </b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with a bag of meat for the freezer </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I hear “To-whee..to-wheedledee!” </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Someone new coming to the feeder?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Kinking my neck, squinting through </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>binoculars gets me a few views, </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>creamy bellies on high branches </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>thick bills and a brush of amber or </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>russet on cocked head-top</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>not enough for identification</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and they never do come down </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>for seed. Write them off as </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“Mystery bird. Passing through.” </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and go put the meat away.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-4746023014293213502013-01-02T19:50:00.001-08:002013-01-02T19:50:15.066-08:00Retrospective
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>In a plastic grocery sack</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>on the desk I’m trying to clear, </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>two red hanging files my mother </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>handed me on New Year’s Day.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>They turn out to be filled with</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>all my letters to her from 17 to 51.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Scraps from notebooks, cutesy stationary,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a post card of Yosemite Falls.</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I spend half an hour reading </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>samples of my younger self, then give up,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sighing and wishing I liked her better.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-7717323824803418512012-12-05T13:02:00.004-08:002012-12-05T13:02:58.314-08:00Side Effects of Soup
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Chopped carrots and celery</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>tossed into the bubbling pot</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>leave the counter bright strewn </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>with yellow and orange confetti,</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>tops and tails for compost.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-86114732996528222972012-12-04T09:18:00.001-08:002012-12-04T09:18:10.440-08:00Crone Tree
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Shriveled trunk and branches</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>disappear against dark, wet forest</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>leaving small red apples </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>suspended in midair.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-5484092560785980032012-12-03T09:33:00.003-08:002012-12-03T09:33:56.356-08:00Post Chickenpoxalypse
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>The school bus flashes to a stop.</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“Well,” he grumps, </b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“<i>This</i> should be fun.”</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and slouches across the road</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>under his red backpack.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-17578546531629340772012-11-29T00:23:00.001-08:002012-11-29T00:23:14.924-08:00Another Day
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>I’m the filling in a cozy blanket sandwich,</b></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>ruthless Morning peels back the layers</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and eats me plain.</b></span></span></div>
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-82611915516023511102012-11-05T11:06:00.003-08:002012-11-05T11:06:30.128-08:00November Morning<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Smell of damp earth and coming rain</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>smell of drifting wood smoke.</b></span></span><br />
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-8787607927813916862012-11-04T22:13:00.000-08:002012-11-04T22:13:31.832-08:00Trickle Creek<br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Upstream a dribbling fall flowing</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>beneath a green-mossed log, </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>a rocky gurgle chattering beside me,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the shoooshing spill below the trail --</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>how many voices between </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>mountain top and sea?</b></span></span><br />
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-16087803657208548622012-11-03T13:23:00.001-07:002012-11-03T13:23:07.921-07:00Cocoon Day<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Grey rain veils obscure the valley</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>damp cold creeps in at house corners</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>crawls through old single panes.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Behind the iron door of it’s workshop</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>the blazing fire cries defiance </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“Pffft-snut-tii-tippt-pnuff--SNAP!”</b></span></span><br />
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Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-19139138377592047082012-09-10T11:41:00.001-07:002012-09-10T11:42:08.115-07:00Heater Time<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>First blowy, cloudy fall day</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>fingers chilled on keyboard.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Push, wiggle, wiggle -- </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>plug firmly seated in socket. Check.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Orange glowy Power light. Check. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Twist -- dial slides round a quarter turn.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Now, wait for it....yes!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Smell of warm dust!</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“Tounk” thermostat switches off,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“tic, tic, tic” of momentary cooling,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>“tounk” thermostat switches on.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Everything is a cycle.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span>Josephine Faith Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02612198382579792073noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3449459174883265285.post-56822067686128670722012-09-07T11:43:00.000-07:002012-09-10T11:43:28.780-07:00Alpine Strawberries After Breakfast<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Hunkering in the garden </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sorting through dewy foliage </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>lifting red half-a-bite gems </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>to my dazzled tongue. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>One kitten climbs my back </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>sits between my shoulder blades </b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>purring in my ear, batting my pony tail,</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>another stalks the berry seeking hand</b></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and pounces wildly on wet fingers.</b></span></span><br />
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