WILLIAM HAZEL
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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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, 2023
- 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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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Winter Solstice - Sharing the Shortest Day
It is the solstice and Winter enters with expected calm. And my neck is sometimes stiff from tilting my face towards the southern sun. In...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Dec 14, 2022
- 5 min
Driving in Hampton Roads
Life and Death on Interstate 64 Fifty-six hundred pounds of Escalade hard laid its side. A brilliant red of rescue lights reflects...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Nov 30, 2022
- 2 min
November Haiku
and other fallen leaves strewn Like my thoughts, my kitchen counter, my poetry felt scattered, windblown against fence bottoms. They...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
Running To Zen - A Marathon Journey
Now available on Amazon Books My first book is about running. Running from not being able to run to running a marathon. I didn't write it...
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WILLIAM HAZEL
- Nov 16, 2022
- 5 min
A Sound Bath Experience
Drenched in good vibrations The resonance peaked within my teeth, then expanded through my gums and in another moment my entire jawline...
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