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Ann E Michael
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#poet --Poet, retired academic writing coach, gardener, blogger. Three books of poetry, 6 chapbooks: www.annemichael.blog Not ambitious. Curious about the world. Working on being more of a mensch.
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Been there. Yep. Done that.
🌱 #ceramic #autumn
The ceramic head finds itself draped in walnut branch and foliage.
Back home: Pennsylvania, where autumnal hues have emerged. 🌱
#autumnal
Traveling in Turkey is amazing, but the way the president here has gradually but effectively hurt his own citizens and tried to rewrite history to advance his own narrative is chilling. And all too familiar to this U. S. citizen.
Because bald ibises are so close to extinction. And so very amazing.
#Turkey #baldibis #endangeredspecies
Gazientep, Turkey at dusk from the terrace of a terrific kebap place in the old Town. Tomorrow, a tour of the markets. Then east and north to Sanliurfa.
Good curation here, going from potential inspiration to where poems come from to the reflective aspects of poem origin as one ages...and onward. And when I get home I'm going to read Martha Silano's last book. ❤️
🌱 While doing garden cleanup I chanced upon this helpful toady. Yes, poetry lovers I thought of Marianne Moore.
#gardens #toads #mariannemoore #poems

Poetry by Marianne Moore - Poems | Academy of American Poets share.google/cB1iwSoaIfUu...
Drought in September. I'm taking the veg garden apart. First photo: July. 2nd photo, last day of summer.
🌱 #vegetable #gardening #drought #equinox
Upside-down bee snooze. 🌱
#bees #zinnia
Seed pods, very artsy. Some magnolia variety near my mom's.
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#seedpod #magnolia #autumn
Somethings are buzzing in the weeping linden. 🌱 🐝
#Hornets #nest
It happens. People seem to think everything online is free of copyright. It could be a form of flattery, the way classic Chinese poets used images and lines of their predecessors; but in contemporary culture, we should acknowledge the work of others.
He's eating windfalls from our pear tree and clearly sees me as no threat. 🌱🍐 #whitetail
#buck #gardening
Bee, lazy in the late mini roses. 🌱🌹
#bee #pollinators #rose