Category: Haiku

• light across the water claims no pills stick in that throat

  June 10, 2021

  light, pills, throat, water

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• even for the little breeze bought with insect wings

  June 8, 2021

  breeze, insect wings, little

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• after the bailout and retrained smile she slips it in his coffee

  June 4, 2021

  bailout, coffee, retrained, smile

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• the spooked dog
  runs from the sprinkler
  and pees

  June 2, 2021

  dog, spooked, sprinkler

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• brushes her red inclination against the trembling milk of it

  May 31, 2021

  brushes, inclination, milk, red, trembling

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• wisteria
  the
  you
  if you
  stay

  May 27, 2021

  stay, wisteria, you

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• myth in deep mountains the soft horns of mist

  May 25, 2021

  deep mountains, mist, myth, soft horns

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• one line to save them all too late the dump truck beep

  May 21, 2021

  beep, dump truck, line, save, too late

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• what viscous dawn taught this monologue to crawl

  May 19, 2021

  crawl, dawn, monologue, viscous

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• rain runs through the hills a harpsichord

  May 17, 2021

  harpsichord, hills, rain

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• one road
  out
  when clouds
  lift the
  sharp mountain

  May 13, 2021

  clouds, mountain, road, sharp

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• sidesteps his heart. Then, a telegram of diamond

  May 11, 2021

  diamond, heart, sidesteps, telegram

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• between new bosons monkeys finish with Shakespeare

  May 7, 2021

  bosons, monkeys, Shakespeare

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• moonflowers
  that look
  in the eye of my double

  May 5, 2021

  double, eye, moonflowers

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• birds before dawn dream of a festival getting lost

  May 3, 2021

  birds, dawn, dream, festival, lost

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• software updated to fry an egg with a smile

  April 29, 2021

  egg, fry, smile, software, updated

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• to be the most difficult verb

  April 27, 2021

  difficult, to be, verb

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• the effort, with red leaves finely pointed, rapid heart

  April 23, 2021

  effort, heart, leaves, rapid, red

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• when I close my eyes swallow a wide sea

  April 21, 2021

  eyes, sea, swallow

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• her perfume
  through the canals
  of Mars

  April 19, 2021

  canals, mars, perfume

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• 

  April 16, 2021

  ants, formula

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• the fight over taxes. Sea Monkeys

  April 15, 2021

  fight, sea monkeys, taxes

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• cotton candy clouds to open my fist I whisper a wish

  April 13, 2021

  clouds, cotton candy, whisper, wish

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• morning songs of foreign birds why I can’t die

  April 9, 2021

  birds, die, foreign, morning, songs

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• grit in the wind all my abandoned blogs

  April 7, 2021

  abandoned blogs, grit, wind

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• all these broken teeth I must chew

  April 5, 2021

  broken teeth, chew

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• long lines of cloud as though I could erase the love letter

  April 1, 2021

  cloud, erase, lines, love letter

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• a man of shadows sitting alone until the breeze

  March 30, 2021

  alone, breeze, man, shadows

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• above the clouds maybe it’s all juvenilia

  March 26, 2021

  clouds, juvenalia, maybe

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• the game where we break each others fingers in spring

  March 24, 2021

  fingers, game, spring

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• meaning to answer
  that letter
  haze burns off

  March 22, 2021

  burns, haze, letter

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• An interview

  Here’s a short interview I did with Todd Sullivan for his series on writing.

  March 19, 2021

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• childless
  geese
  far
  out
  on
  the
  water

  March 18, 2021

  childless, geese, water

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• a blackbird drinks from the pothole first crocus

  March 16, 2021

  blackbird, crocus, drinks, first, pothole

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• scars of store names where once flowers

  March 12, 2021

  flowers, scars, store names

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• winter rain the smoothness of a kidney bean

  March 10, 2021

  kidney bean, rain, smoothness, winter

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• cricket half of a smaller infinity

  March 8, 2021

  cricket, half, infinity, smaller

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• starlings synchronize in salmon clouds over ice

  March 4, 2021

  ice, salmon clouds, starlings, synchronize

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• just when you can’t stand any more wild violets

  March 2, 2021

  wild violets

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• what happened to all those UFOs Fox News I guess

  February 26, 2021

  Fox News, UFOs

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• snowflakes in the wind’s groan swallow pills one by one

  February 24, 2021

  groan, pills, snowflakes, wind

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• decades after saying no the face of the saint as a bookmark

  February 22, 2021

  bookmark, decades, face, no, saint

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• the soup in need of better verbs pepper or an asterisk

  February 18, 2021

  asterisk, pepper, soup, verbs

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• raccoons also fighting in the dark

  February 16, 2021

  dark, fighting, raccoons

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• stochastic erasures to provoke the blood in deep winter

  February 12, 2021

  blood, deep winter, erasures

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• my neighbor’s porch light for two months deep winter

  February 10, 2021

  months, neighbor, porch light, winter

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• for a small something like a seed though let’s stay inside

  February 8, 2021

  inside, seed

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• searching for gods in the light of ice-covered trees

  February 4, 2021

  gods, ice, light, trees

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• the ice wind inside. Having written the date I force myself

  February 3, 2021

  date, ice, wind

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• my uncle from the stars of winter

  February 2, 2021

  stars, uncle, winter

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• eight the other numbers which is why it’s so fat

  January 28, 2021

  eight, fat, numbers

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• snow starts
  too much
  ink in the pen

  January 26, 2021

  ink, pen, snow

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• snow before you know where you’re going an inch

  January 22, 2021

  inch, snow

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• and inflamed
  those few illusions
  what broken call home

  January 20, 2021

  broken, home, illusions, inflamed

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• of lasting value. By the shore thwack of clams falling hard

  January 18, 2021

  clams, shore, value

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