Sunday, April 13, 2025

SkyKu: Spring


North 33 degrees 42 minutes 29.80 seconds

West 111 degrees 54 minutes 2.81 seconds


perched in ironwoods

night birds report their chirp verse

breaking the quiet


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a veil of clouds shrouds

the moon with iridescent 

prismatic black pearl


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dry spring zephyrs move 

through the palo verdes low

moon, mars, jupiter


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the penny on my 

roof reflects the light of moon

like a silver dime


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orion exits

until it swings back eastward

in autumn’s advent


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above the foothills

an egg shaped moon sinks away

down in the cool night


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tusk moon over buttes 

an effulgence of silk clouds 

a scream of quiet


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rain clouds clear for a 

blood orange moon waning over

the dark desert hills


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ironwood and the

saguaro silhouetted 

against a thin cloud


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a great owl in the 

middle of the road takes flight 

from my car headlights 


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no venus no moon

no trees moving in the wind

quiet still as stars


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two red tailed hawks hunt

rabbits on the house drive way

in the early day


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like a perfect chalk

circle around the full moon

marks approaching rain


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earth in spring pushes

insects out from the cool sand

and stones in the wash


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walls of igneous

canyons carved in the desert 

sediment and clay


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hawk lands on highway 

lamp post this afternoon with

out secret service


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the advent of Spring

animals flowers and mice 

you can hear the owls


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meteor flicks quick

like a quantum particle

inside a vacuum


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in the 3am 

the push and pull of the winds 

stars hit peak at dawn


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moon holding Earth-shine 

low over the dark hillside

a pristine spring night


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the owl ghost star and 

jupiter set west mars high 

and faint above town


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moon sets west now red 

as mars 3am hour 

of the gods and stars


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collapse on your lap

moon sets west like blood in dirt

dream alert tonight


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moon slips behind the

black clouds with mars and airplane 

time to go back in


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geometrical 

cosmic tag the whole night sky 

a big line drawing 

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leaving a giant 

wriggling worm a sky glow worm 

winds over the trail


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aphids appear to

circumnavigate the edge 

of a candle’s glass


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loving the light two 

aphids the color of lime

battle the light breeze


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dance on the surface 

of a smartphone's glare and do 

a little boogie


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on the roof in the 

hour of god mars trucks west 

pulls the milky way


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the aphids are now

wearing parkas because it

is so god damn cold


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skies open up the 

heavens there is a gentle 

breeze blowing tonight


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collective light from 

a billion years hits the back 

of our open eyes


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there was a time to

remember lean back the head 

and dream of the day


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a meteor drops

answering brilliant in the 

east over the hills


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dark new moon tonight

dipper mars jupiter hang 

out now a slight breeze


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the winds blow through the

dark mighty evening and now

I must go to sleep


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weird when you start to

shine a flashlight everywhere

the cool wind will cease 


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a gem in my beak 

from the rubble you leave has

planted a new day


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moonlight 3am

just me and the nature noise

across the desert


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jupiter sails west 

moon saturn mars lifting east 

sacred silent night


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a world without the 

animal is a coffin 

of sirens screaming


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full passover moon

next jupiter to the east 

then falling star west 


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rich scent of mesquite 

sage and acacia tree

Ho'hokam grass too


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indigenous trees 

grow upside down serpent holds 

the moon in its mouth 


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wild fires burn in the 

north woods the invincible 

trickster of fury


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Dali Lama is 

not here he's over the hill

crimson crescent moon


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should be nice tonight

the moon glow grows chasing west 

jupiter north west


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in the last two nights

you could see the fingers of 

the old milky way 


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slow red moon sets west 

May wild flowers bring June wild 

fires burn for months


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couldn't sleep much last 

night with out the power this 

morning I woke up


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mars skates over the 

city lights glow dipper dive

bombs in the dark west 


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in the sandwich of 

the evening a gun metal 

sky mars moon sets west


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skeleton light years
3 o'god in the morning

bloody stained half moon


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all night dreaming of

bright angels in the millions

ascending my spine 


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into the heaven 

of my brain in the morning

the sun wakes me up


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the sun the big sun

waiting Memorial Day 

phoenix bright hot light


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homeless head for Flag

rich head for San Diego 

the rest of us sleep


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moon waxes gibbous 

courting mars stage south south west 

in gun metal sky


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when the night birds sing 

earlier some ants battled

in the cool kitchen 


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driving all life in

a circadian rhythm

there is no escape


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there was a reason 

he wore a blood stained toga

Komodo dragon


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mars hovers over 

a wolf spider on flagstone

wind stirs desert dirt 


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moon hangs in cobweb 

clouds over Superstitions

a cream glow smearing 


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2 am breezes

all wild life shrugs heavens clouds

hearts silence rises


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her orchestra is

leaving nothing but muses 

of eternity 


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womb moon in space-time

now free in cloudless night sky

tiny planes blink out


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moon rising through strands 

of clouds breaking through the east 

crescent moon moves low 


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cassiopeia 

low in the north sky tonight

jupiter moon dusk


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saturn mars south by

south west vega above my 

head a shooting star


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moon saturn south now

over ghost clouds of satin

ironwood shadows


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morning cool breezes

birds chirp doves coo airplanes land

air brakes squeak gate slams


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3am hour 

moon, stars, trees, helicopter

cool, calm and silent


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still no animals 

eating each other alive

no planes in the sky


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no helicopters

no sirens no distant groan

of last call traffic


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the owl drops from a 

canopy of cottonwoods

claws a bird to death


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blood orange moon sinks 

west taking jupiter out 

mars south with saturn


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jupiter rising 

from the east a full flower 

blue moon and saturn


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mind tagged with song of 

memory quiet falls from 

deep space the heart beats


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june new moon blue sky 

fresh heat people meet light air 

wind in hair bare feet 


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walking talking in

to the mist of the threshold 

of the summer time


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lightning flies midnight

bird songs saguaro blooms doves 

loom clouds plume from north 


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half moon heading west

jupiter near mid summit

in a soup of billions


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dark matter and light 

from times before earth began

above the desert 


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breezy cool evening

the invisible invites 

through the sigh song trees

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the saguaro blooms

tuning forks stand food for doves

eons of monsoons


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in the lightning blasts 

the saguaro boils to death

leaving long glass roots


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last days of may mars 

rises east chases saturn

chases jupiter


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soon to be june with 

her blue white skies and damning 

hell hot heat hits streets


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look east mars rises 

then saturn jupiter near 

moon and arcturus