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William Hazel
WILLIAM HAZEL
- Nov 22
- 3 min
In the Middle
The fence shadows crept like ghosts back to graves and then it was the middle of the night. And then it was the middle of the month. I...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Oct 19
- 5 min
On A Williamsburg Ghost Tour
Alias Little Red Riding Hood, that’s what she called herself, sort of looked the part, kind of Grimm, with a red trimmed cape thing, but...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Sep 16
- 3 min
The Secret Weeks
September offers no immediacy. I am thankful for this truth. This year brings three clear weeks between the end and perceived end of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Sep 2
- 1 min
At the Speed of Summer
Where did the summer go everyone keeps asking pointing their phones at their faces hump days and Friday eves across the called ways of...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Aug 19
- 3 min
On the Far Side of Van Gogh
My body was covered in colors dull bright, a French countryside cottage built on my chest. And my love looked so lovely in an almond...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Aug 5
- 5 min
Summering in Chincoteague
My beer can was rolling towards the main drag centerline. Early night close bright headlights from both directions guided my steps toward...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jun 22
- 5 min
Going Through Customs in Atlanta
A woman was yelling. Not screaming. Not talking loudly. Yelling. Hers was a strong voice. Lines three and four. I got it. We had US...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jun 1
- 2 min
Summer Intention
The fog fell heavy, ghosting expectations for anything resembling sun or summer. The season’s first hours might have invited fresh...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- May 18
- 1 min
Sipping Red
I chose the last Sunday of each month to share a haiku practice on my IG stories through the fall and winter months. Sipping red in bed,...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 23
- 6 min
Medals and Magnets
It seems all 18,000 runners are in the party tent. Organizations like J&A Racing understand how to have great races, and great after-race...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 15
- 3 min
When the Tumor Took My Friend
When the tumor took my friend, I sat in silence for a long while before I cried. I had known her almost nine years, and she was my very...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Apr 1
- 4 min
Visiting the Outer Banks - An Off-Season Getaway
The Google Gods provided backroad navigation to the state line. The transition into North Carolina unrolled narrow lanes through road...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Mar 18
- 2 min
In These Last Hours of Winter
Instead of the rush for spring, I choose to linger in these last hours of winter. In the splash-colored backdrop of daffodil and tulip...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 25
- 2 min
Raising New Fences
We raised new fences and the backyard smells of fresh milled pine. We being an expression of the gathering of craftsmen and apprentices...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 13
- 1 min
Valentine Haiku
For My Love old souls travel true carrying needs mere and love at hope we begin dare explorations intuitive directions guidebook left...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Feb 8
- 1 min
Bitter Black Dawn
A winter week's poems, inspired by the day. And coffee. bitter black dawn arabica sips slow Monday hands the shovel wondering where a...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jan 22
- 3 min
The January Gym
The January gym reeks of resolution and self-loathing. New faces in new clothes staining in the sweat of want and willpower and...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Jan 14
- 3 min
Resolution Run
and a quest for large mimosas The 10am 5K start felt far from resolutory. Dawn would have impressed. Shivering in the New Year’s frost at...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
December Journal
Thoughts of family, belonging, and boundary The rain falls easy thick on the last day of December. I am warmed with coffee and the...
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