Mark Tate

@markstate.bsky.social

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Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs

sunset West Coast
to the sea—sometimes ya just got go and have a day at the sea
rock sculpture along the beach near Crescent City CA
spruce
art by Nate Scott displayed in Mendocino Botanical Garden titled “Gryphon” … imagine this on your piano!
Tressel
If you’re humping, do you have to be speedy about it?
morning convergence
end of the road west—ocean
shoreline
Dahlia garden in the center of Mendocino Botanical garden
CA quail
Si Senor
color
Uhh 🤔 😳
on the road coastal town to coastal town
rocks on beach
young listening to old
sticks and stones
window crystals! classes Monday night 6-7.
queen ann’s lace
she believed she could
rose
self-made bouquet of roses at the house of flowers
driftwood
fronds
redwood stump
rose
rose
frond
yellow rose
banana palm
a sunflower mirroring the sun
scape
long long time ago in Ireland a young man with a minolta
hydrangea
planet news::mandala
sunflower looking at the sun
light square on fieldstone (?)
spider webbing and detritus from falling oakness
California poppies
morning in the holler pre-heat for an hour and bake all day at 100+
a window overlooking bird activity in the heat
a blue sky is entertained by the strident movement of clouds
poppies orange ones yellow ones
poppies
Geordie the adopted feral cat of our neighbor napping in the heat.
sunflowers
Geordie is 95% deaf but likes to get under vehicles anyway.
Photo by my son Sean visiting remote Mexican coast town
hydrangea
a feral cat taken in by a neighbor visits me each morning for second breakfast
sunflowers grow beneath bird seed feeders
dark cloud passed by—no rain
blackberries coming along—summer
clouds passing through coastal Northern California
clouds—both sides now
Where
odd cloud formations this morning
Sunset west coast