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SAUVIE ISLAND - mostly

A blue looking-glass A stiff breeze A sky’s reflection shattered An island of wild trees amidst a lock-step sea of cash crops Excited cartoon bees before improbable flowers Grass batons conducting wind-songs Somehow reassuring to find plants confounded …and happy old buildings perpetually surprised. Born of architecture and order, but open to new experiences in its twilight years This barn without people is like a body without a soul Giant PEZ dispensers Hay delivery system After playing softball on Sunday, I find I empathize with this old house. Lively colors in a dead house Tree atolls, but not so metaphorical this time Traitor decoy…friendless and alone Blinds as elaborate as the Monitor and the Merrimac, designed for a contest of wits between men and ducks. Despite years of hunting refinements, the ducks are still not allowed to use weapons. That was a big carp…really. I heard five eagles taking baths. They resented the invasion of their privacy. A b...