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Dave BontaContemplative

blossoming witch hazel I pound a stuck storm window with a Chinese dictionary

red-spotted newt even on land it still steers with its tail

where it lost a limb a glimpse of twisted heartwood mosquito in my ear

old bolete gnats follow the branching cracks in its skin

first rain in weeks the dry canyons in my moss garden disappear

night-blooming cereus two spiders feed on a white moth

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