Image altered from photo taken by by an ISS Expedition 24
crew member. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Public domain.
daylight’s waves ebb, bare
a dim star-shingle. moon lists,
bides the tide’s turning
Wiz 2021 winter solstice haiku chain
Wilderness Interface Zone 
winter’s first full dawn:
brown ceiling, blue panes. sunrise
whelms an hour with pinks.
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wind rifles empty
milkweed pods. their seeds? gone
gambling with their wealth.
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Flames of lark song
burn bright on morning’s fence posts
crackling, flaring, fierce
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spring, the long sunrise.
light fills its cold-kilned absence.
night shrinks under rocks.
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Rocks guard, shade, shelter
Desert’s denizens from day’s
Irradiant reach.
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A half brumal, half
vernal storm restores darkness.
Rogue winds push in rain.
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Tilt, Coriolis,
And ellipses calculate.
Once-estranged rains drench.
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Wild rose bush, bare-thorn
limbs aglow, pendant with charms
of the first water
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