Tanka

An earth day awareness of being on a lake surface….
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cliff’s treeline higher
water table dropped again
canoe-view: tiers dry
rockface lines calcified
guilty wince for new well drilled

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From One Deep Breath Prompt. If you’ll go around, don’t miss Trailing Light with her line on gardening about manna on my spade or Mike McCulley’s set of haiku including the profound observation,

“to build a web
it takes
one spider“

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