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Love all three. Urban Tree speaks to me most deeply. Each tree populates the world with air and love. Thank you for sharing your parking lot poems with us, Sherman.

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...the large bird silently

flies away with the fry

🍟

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Flies away with the fry

Love them

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Wow, writing such words about mundanity is great! Finding the simplest subjects to turn into your art is very cool!

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You’re on a roll! ❤️

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Thanks, Cecilia.

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As always great stuff Sherman.

Being from the East, with a seemingly abundance of water, I have to remind myself how precious it is.

"a car wash in Seattle" that man-made rain...brilliant.

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Thanks, Mary Kay.

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The beauty of the different languages is a gift I receive daily

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Thanks, Steve.

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Thanks Sherman. You help us see/feel everything.

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Thank you, Rick.

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I hesitated to open this one. Not sure I wanted more war. Alas, curiosity won! And I am so delighted it did. I love your short poems, and your longer poems, and your stories & essays. Never a disappointment. Happy Monday and have a great and glorious week ;-)

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Thank you, Lenora.

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Parking Lot War made me stop and take a deeeeeeep breath.

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Thank you, Noha.

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Two birds swearing about the big guy.

Sherman, both your eyes are open.

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Thanks, Malcolm.

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They really work together as one.

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They were all written within an hour of one another. Same head space.

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The last one spoke to me the most. Not that you asked! All three are wonderful but the final had that touch of being part of the bigger picture that we are trying to figure out. But the answer is in these few lines. Just beautiful.

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Thank you!

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I smiled at the first one, I related so much to the second one, the third one made me love my hometown all over again.

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Thank you, Jenny.

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Car wash is my favourite. Thanks for showing us that regardless of imperfect mikes, poems can reign supreme.

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Thank you, Melanie.

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PInes look good anywhere. thanks

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Thanks, Weston.

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