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Andy Perrin
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the sun rises
while clouds and ocean paint
our reflections

(sunrise Narragansett Bay Nov. 25)

#vss365 #reflection
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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This timed exercise of life,
existence,
what a strangeness we inhabit,

where madmen invented minutes
and traded them for money,

so sorry I simply don’t have time,

we measure wars in increments
of time and lose sight of the rest,

seasons are the shortest time.

#vss365 #timed
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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The Cedar Wax Wings
of course
are relevant to the poem,

as the winter berries
begin to fade,

and the lichened walls
glisten with morning frost

framing the silhouetted
stand of thinned birches,

it’s nice that there’s also
this fullness of sound.

#vss365 #relevant
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It would all be achievable
but for the greed, the greed,
the illusion of greatness.

#vss365 #achievable
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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the measurable distance
between poems

one maple leaf falls
then another

one Canada goose calls
then another

one snowflake drifts
then another

one memory arrives
then another

one lifetime
then another

and another

#vss365 #measurable
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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two ducks drifting
through an inverted
cold fleeting morning

this specific moment
firstly and also lastly

#vss365 #specific
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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a veiled November day
awaiting the rising action

a heron steadying
on one leg and cold

Wickford Harbor roughed
by the chop of wind

a few masts remain
awaiting the climax

the western falling
and winter’s resolution

#vss365 #action
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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to have options
is to live freely

a train whistle
at Kinston Station

a revolving light
at Point Judith

a singularly
remarkable oak

a few words
chosen and written

gratefulness
as the moon sets

again

#vss365 #options
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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goals in the wind
oak leaves deeply layered
for a few acorns

#vss365 #goal
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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transportation brought
humanity together and

destroyed it with the
raw materials of chains

#vss365 #transportation
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
andyperrincycling.bsky.social
the science
of poetry
is in biology
silhouettes
on power lines

#vss365 #science
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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The number of masts
on Wickford Harbor
declines with each day.

Sounds are fewer now,
squawking herons and
honking geese break

the screaming silence,
and where reflection
meets real is blurred

in an exceptional blue.

#vss365 #number
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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The myths of winter
are revealed slowly,

emptiness, stillness,
darkness, harshness,

but skies fill and fall
in the canon of snow.

#vss365 #myth
November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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staunch pilings
on Wickford Harbor

emptiness enough
for a measure of
serenity

#vss365 #measure
November 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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A new poem, On Writing the Fall
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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natural law
light enlivens color
in all seasons

#vss365 #law
November 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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winter’s language
vernacular of cold
stilled in culture

#vss365 #language
November 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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It would be nice
to know the history
of birds.

Not birds in general,
but that bird
at Wickford harbor,

the only other living
thing stirring this
quiet morning.

#vss365 #history
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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geography
reaching across nuances

that divide us

#vss365 #geography
November 6, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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If I wrote the poem
that made me famous,

I’d burn it, toss the ashes
up into an offshore breeze,

and wait to see if it ever
blew back my way again.

(not really though)

#vss365 #famous
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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domestic strife
tearing each other apart
for the billionaires

#vss365 #domestic
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The creature
so desires war,
craves war, his phony wars
instigations of delusion,
maelstrom misogynies,
misguided missiles,
magalopolis morbidities,
and we are eaten,
consumed.

#vss365 #creature
November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Fast approaching a
more profitable

horror scape

that renders
humanity obsolete.
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The business of
governance is
more the business
of business

and we the people
have lost
everything we
ourselves built.

#vss365 #business
November 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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witch-hazel bones
Halloween points to much
much scarier days

#vss365 #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 AM