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10 January 2023Calvin Olsenappear, Calvin Olsen, carpet, get outta here leaf, haiku, House, incongruity, juxtaposition, leaf, leaves, nature, poem, Poetry, weird Leave a comment

Few things will appear
More incongruous than this
Leaf on my carpet

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28 July 2021Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, COVID-19, Edinburgh, flies, fly, haiku, insect, insects, leaf, long enough, nature, pic, picture, pictures, poem, Poetry, Scotland, Sky, social distancing, tiny Leave a comment

Tiny fly pauses
Just long enough for a pic—
Off leaf into sky

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3 July 2021Calvin Olsenberries, between, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, Edinburgh, food, fruit, haiku, leaf, leaves, Lidl, line, lines, pallet, poem, Poetry, Scotland, Scottish, social distancing, strawberries, sweet, thin, white Leave a comment

Pallet of Scottish
Strawberries: thin line of white
Between leaf and sweet

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenbeam, beams, COVID-19, fall, falling, haiku, headlights, leaf, leaves, nature, oblong, pandemic, poem, Poetry, social distancing, spinning, translucence Leave a comment

An oblong leaf falls
Spinning through a headlight beam
Transluce—nope—it’s gone

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20 July 2020Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, COVID-19, Dew, drag, dragged, dry, haiku, leaf, leaves, pieces, poem, Poetry, pun, shoes, slender, social distancing, sole, Water, wet Leave a comment

Slender leaf dragged in
On a dew-wet shoe sole dried
And gone to pieces

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7 November 2019Calvin Olsenback, fall, five, Gas, gasoline, haiku, leaf, leaf blowers, leaves, lines, moving, poem, Poetry, smell, Street Leave a comment

Smell of gasoline:
Five back-mounted leaf blowers
Move a street-wide line

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7 November 2019Calvin Olsencars, dad, fall, haiku, leaf, leaves, notice, parenting, poem, Poetry, questions, toddler, wet, windshield, wipe Leave a comment

Wet leaf on windshield—
Toddler notices and asks
“Dad, will you wipe it?”

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6 November 2018Calvin Olsenbalance, birds, fall, feathers, haiku, hopping, leaf, leaves, nature, poem, Poetry, red, slight, sparse, tail, tree, Trees, two Leave a comment

Two leaf-colored birds
(Slight red) hop up a sparse tree
Tail-feather balance

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10 April 2018Calvin Olsencistern, Concrete, dots, haiku, leaf, leaves, names, paint, painting, path, poem, Poetry, running, shape, thin, Trees Leave a comment

Tree names and leaf shapes
Painted on concrete cisterns
Dotting a thin path

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14 November 2017Calvin Olsenanimals, cat, cats, Dark, eating, full-length, haiku, i hate animals, leaf, leaves, Lily, old, pets, plants, poem, Poetry, poop, protrude, scat, shriveled, something, stem, thin, weird, what?, why, WTF Leave a comment

Something dark protrudes
From our old cat’s shriveled scat:
Thin full-length leaf stem

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