Category: Haiku

• January, I try to be a brave poltergeist

  January 14, 2021

  january, poltergeist

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• eating this double-edged dawn without crickets

  January 12, 2021

  crickets, dawn, eating

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• icicle shine
  the city recalls
  how to digest itself

  January 6, 2021

  city, digest, icicle

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• white sky early in the year a small dog creeps inside

  January 4, 2021

  dog, inside, sky, small, white

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• day one. The towers toppled, but the sweet sparrow’s song

  January 1, 2021

  song, sparrow, tower

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• and in the and the end

  December 31, 2020

  end, the end

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• it’s always ticking this beetle with gold intestines

  December 29, 2020

  beetle, gold, intestines, ticking

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• so hungry in this dark place what harm in six seeds

  December 25, 2020

  dark, hungry, seeds

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• the mist, falling out of your ear, sharpness of distant rocks

  December 23, 2020

  ear, mist, rocks, sharpness

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• milk splash in coffee the weather report for Jupiter

  December 21, 2020

  coffee, jupiter, milk, weather

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• trees
  bare
  the tight fists of sparrows

  December 17, 2020

  bare, fists, sparrows, trees

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• lacks a specific hunger. Brushstrokes of the maple

  December 15, 2020

  brushstrokes, hunger, maple

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• reveals a crack in the god’s golden thigh

  December 11, 2020

  crack, god, golden, thigh

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• until one accumulates enough to resemble a head

  December 9, 2020

  accumulates, head

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• the scent of wood fires in fog I start the day

  December 7, 2020

  day, fires, scent, wood

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• the newscaster’s hands gathering clouds

  December 3, 2020

  clouds, hands, newscaster

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• more cold rain my nails still too long

  December 1, 2020

  cold, nails, rain

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• in the mouth of an orchid daylight
  at the dead end

  November 27, 2020

  daylight, dead end, orchid

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• wintering
  the sound of
  empty
  flower pots

  November 25, 2020

  empty, flower pots, sound, wintering

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• home
  town
  hard
  water

  November 23, 2020

  hard water, home town

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• in this adventure every gold coin breaks a tooth

  November 19, 2020

  adventure, breaks, gold coin, tooth

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• dark windows
  abandoned saints
  of central London

  November 17, 2020

  abandoned saints, dark windows, london

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• bones of a frog somehow Cleopatra survives

  November 13, 2020

  bones, Cleopatra, frog

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• to own this land. The kite I fly with knives

  November 11, 2020

  fly, kite, knives, land

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• bare
  trees
  without
  which
  wind
  the
  hand
  withdrawn

  November 9, 2020

  bare trees, hand, withdrawn

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• Arthur C. Clarke after six thousand years cicada

  November 5, 2020

  Arthur C. Clarke, cicadas, years

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• the pen. A severed finger you can save

  November 3, 2020

  pen, save, severed finger

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• to redact those years candy wrapper bird nest

  October 29, 2020

  bird nest, candy wrapper, redact, years

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• fine rain—
  a white spider climbs
  the window sill

  October 27, 2020

  rain, spider, window

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• once she confided in me I only thought of maple syrup

  October 26, 2020

  maple syrup

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• the ocean’s dark blue love of being broken

  October 23, 2020

  broken, dark blue, ocean

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• with cramped handwriting a lost bee at midnight

  October 21, 2020

  bee, handwriting, lost, midnight

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• half autumn color. Come take my hand in the ghost land and

  October 19, 2020

  autumn, color, ghost land, hand

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• the brave part of my teeth removed for a new highway

  October 16, 2020

  brave, highway, teeth

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• quiet now with the new pills crushed velvet

  October 14, 2020

  crushed velvet, pills, quiet

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• too late to give up the first sign of bruising in the morning sky

  October 12, 2020

  bruising, first sign, give up, morning, sky

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• gather broken branches to spell her name

  October 8, 2020

  broken branches, name, spell

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• in autumn dark I’d forgotten how big this bear before dawn

  October 7, 2020

  autumn, bear, dark

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• the unlucky youths who built the space elevator

  October 6, 2020

  space elevator, unlucky youths

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• mid-autumn past midnight the train whistle won’t disappear

  October 2, 2020

  autumn, midnight, train, whistle

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• the small hours like crystals into birdsong

  September 30, 2020

  birdsong, crystal, small hours

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• because it gets under your skin and the others have left

  September 28, 2020

  left, skin

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• another summer gone
  the worms
  we don’t outrun

  September 24, 2020

  gone, outrun, summer, worms

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• those selves abandoned. Walk the dry shores of Mars

  September 22, 2020

  abandoned, dry, mars, selves, shores

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• no thoughts but in things invading our planet

  September 17, 2020

  planet, things, thoughts

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• satellites repositioning pigeons

  September 16, 2020

  pigeons, repositioning, satellites

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• from the canoe
  pointing out every turtle
  at first

  September 14, 2020

  canoe, turtle

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• unable to read my note the next day alone with flowering weeds

  September 11, 2020

  alone, flowering weeds, note, read

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• charcoal sky in a jar the factory’s baby teeth

  September 10, 2020

  baby teeth, charcoal, factory, jar, sky

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• dancing figures in smoke from the city of dry leaves in my chest

  September 8, 2020

  chest, city, dancing, dry leaves, smoke

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• reports of explosions the magazine all ads

  September 4, 2020

  ads, explosions, magazing

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• ungrown me climbed this tree under new management

  September 2, 2020

  management, tree, ungrown

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• moonrise after the visitor leaves three white petals

  August 31, 2020

  moonrise, visitor, white petals

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• where I belong and breathe before it’s set on fire

  August 27, 2020

  breathe, fire

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• to make a nest in your outstretched hand, still the rain

  August 25, 2020

  hand, nest, rain

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