4 months from Monday, Monday


Monday, Monday, can’t trust that day. — "Papa" John Phillips
                                        

JANUARY 2

Stunning porch lights, on all night

                                        
JANUARY 9

& the cold slaps my cheek, a hint of snow but this
                                        

JANUARY 16

false sun blazing. Deep night & still 65 degrees. The green
                                        

JANUARY 23

of my lawn is the greenest green & the sun
                                        

JANUARY 30

blazing & the porch lights on all night long.
                                        

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MARCH 6

My catastrophe unfolding: this movement, this
                                        

MARCH 13

progression. Every other day,
                                        

MARCH 20

every other day of the week is fine.
                                        

MARCH 27

That new leaf is not the shape of anything I’ve seen before.
                                        

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APRIL 3

Wild birds spin their spring path.
                                        

APRIL 10

Even one bird is striking:
                                        

APRIL 17

stiletto beak, such tiny agonies.
                                        

APRIL 24

Can you imagine the wrong kind of bird?
                                        

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JUNE 5

Rain & the porch lights on all day long.
                                        

JUNE 12

The lawn the green of angry birds, their shape
                                        

JUNE 19

unlike any other shape, the wrong kind
                                        

JUNE 26

of shape, a pressed hand.


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