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Tag Archives: awesome

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenalligator clips, awesome, clip, COVID-19, digital humanities, haiku, machine, pandemic, poem, Poetry, reading, ring, rings, social distancing, tungsten carbide Leave a comment

Alligator clip
Makes my tungsten carbide ring
A reading machine

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenawesome, COVID-19, enter, flinch, flu shot, haiku, immunization, immunize your children, legs, needles, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, shots, social distancing, syringe, tough Leave a comment

Three-year-old watches
A needle enter her leg—
Doesn’t even flinch

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenawesome, Calvin Olsen, covi, dentist, explanation, haiku, healthcare, ninjas, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, protection, social distancing Leave a comment

The dentist explains
His head-to-toe protection:
“I’m like a ninja.”

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20 July 2020Calvin Olsenadirondack chair, awesome, Calvin Olsen, cars, chairs, COVID-19, haiku, nature, oak, oil change, poem, Poetry, social distancing, Trees, Waiting, white, white oak Leave a comment

I wait for my car
In an Adirondack chair
Under a white oak

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsen80, A million Times 80 Copper, art, awesome, clock, copper, gallery, Gregg Museum, haiku, Humans since 1982, museum, poem, Poetry, silence, spinning, unison Leave a comment

Silent gallery:
Eighty copper clocks spinning
Kaleidoscope style

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsen1831, 200, art, awesome, Books, Dark, Frankenstein, frontispiece, haiku, ink, library, literature, old, poem, Poetry, shine, special collections, UNC, Wilson Library Leave a comment

Famous frontispiece
Nearly two hundred years old
Ink dark, almost shines

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenawesome, blocks, Books, country, foam, Glass, green, haiku, i love books, library, old, poem, Poetry, reading, special collections, UNC, University, waves, Wilson Library, windows Leave a comment

Wavy glass windows:
Books older than my country
Lie on green foam blocks

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenawesome, bad, basement, cubicles, haiku, library, Light, mess, new job, pile, poem, Poetry, Work Leave a comment

Library basement:
Messy cubicles, bad light,
Piles of awesomeness

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenart, awesome, black, family, haiku, hand-painted, holding, nephew, obsession, Outer space, planets, poem, Poetry, Room, space, walls Leave a comment

Space-obsessed nephew
Shows his room: one black wall holds
Hand-painted planets

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1 October 2019Calvin Olsenawesome, catch, flu, glasses, gross, haiku, lenses, poem, Poetry, right, sick, tears, thick, vomit, why Leave a comment

During the vomit
The right lens of my glasses
Catches two thick tears

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