Category: Haiku

• the wind & rain a gamelan

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  a tree broken by the wind I only have questions this morning

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  bare trees in bright sun why is it so hard to be nice to myself

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  one more I say and stare at the clouds

  December 8, 2011

  gamelan, question, rain, tree, wind

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• the winter fly bouncing on the ceiling doesn’t want my help

   

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  the sound of distant cars my cereal loses its crunch

   

  December 6, 2011

  cereal, fly, smile, spring, winter

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• a word I didn’t expect a drop of ink uncurls in the water

   

   

  December 2, 2011

  ink, water

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• In other news…

  Alexis Rotella (@tankaqueen) chose my poem as the winner in her holiday-themed senryu competition on Twitter yesterday! I’m very proud to have been chosen/noticed/acknowledged by her. Here’s the poem:

  reflected in the wine glass

  a wrecked city

  of colored paper

  December 2, 2011

  alexis rotella, holiday, senryu, tankaqueen

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• the screen too bright already I’ve spilled my coffee where’s the reset

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  this table once visited by birds in the forest

  November 23, 2011

  birds, coffee, flowers, table

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• one paper crane on top of a larger one the body’s thresholds

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  for no reason a song spills out of me as I recycle this cold grey morning

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  walking between autobiography and nonsense I stop on my walk to murder the sunset

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  gulping my drink like a man just found in the desert why can’t I be more like George Clooney

   

  November 16, 2011

  body, crane, desert, gulp, recycle, song

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• torn piece of paper with half a list stopped short by the old tree suddenly red

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  24 seconds still on the microwave I’m getting old

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  talking about back in the day the acid, the crystal, the breeze through the last leaves

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  just three almonds in morning light I should draw them

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  more garbage trucks clash clatter fill the land with all the broken things

  November 15, 2011

  almonds, breeze, trash

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