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INTELLIGIBLE HUES: LAWYERS & POETRY

DAVID GIACALONE 
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to read list
and summer corn
growing, growing
 

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     waking, the agnostic asks
     who dried the dishes
     and hung that sun? 
 

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old dog and master
jostling
for the tiny spot of shade
 

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     storm alert
     every kind of cloud 
     in one sky

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from here
they could be mountains- 
clouds at sunset
 

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     white to pink- 
     who painted the clouds while 
     we shopped for wine?
 

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winter twins- 
which tree blossomed 
last Spring?
 

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     blue sky 
     behind bare branches 
     year end bonus 
 
 
 


David Giacalone graduated from Harvard Law School in 1976 and is now retired (from a solo practice where he was an attorney and mediator). Giacalone spent over a decade in antitrust law at the Federal Trade Commission, before turning to family law.  He currently lives in upstate New York. Giacalone's weblog-f/k/a-features haiku and law related commentary (with the hope of interesting more lawyers in haiku). Giacalone's haiku can be found in his blog, dagosan's scrapbook archives.