Category: Haiku

• back to basics gull screams grey afternoon

  August 20, 2020

  afternoon, grey, gull, scream

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• at night it scratches out stars unbandaged gone

  August 18, 2020

  scratches, stars, unbandaged

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• a stone in my shoe the billboard peeling midnight

  August 17, 2020

  billboard, midnight, peeling, shoe, stone

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• plans firm but my limbs lose the paperwork in a violet night

  August 13, 2020

  paperwork, plans, violet

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• little hairs are knives in the underside of summer

  August 11, 2020

  hairs, knives, summer, underside

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• what thoughts I can twilight crickets

  August 7, 2020

  crickets, thoughts, twilight

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• molasses dance of moonflowers the story folds itself into a crane

  August 5, 2020

  crane, molasses, moonflowers

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• sweetness
  of grass in black soil
  enough of male gods

  August 3, 2020

  gods, soil

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• builder of ziggurats. Historically, the answer is silence.

  July 31, 2020

  historically, silence, ziggurats

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• black grapes ripen
  where Odysseus rested

  July 29, 2020

  grapes, Odysseus, rested, ripen

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• away from the garlic out over the little bridge a path

  July 27, 2020

  bridge, garlic, path

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• syllables of old gods acorns through oak leaves

  July 23, 2020

  acorns, gods, leaves, syllables

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• for him who still believes in hands this branch

  July 21, 2020

  believes, branch, hands

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• restless night
  small feathers
  fall from my chest

  July 17, 2020

  chest, feathers, night, restless

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• never healed from white spiders posing riddles

  July 15, 2020

  healed, riddles, spiders

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• rise
  &
  fall of
  her breath draws
  the
  skyline

  July 13, 2020

  breath, fall, rise, skyline

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• never a bookmark
  when you need
  one shooting star

  July 9, 2020

  bookmark, shooting star

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• a dream fed through a pasta maker daffodils droop

  July 7, 2020

  daffodils, drean, fed, pasta maker

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• the homunculus springs up with seven words

  July 3, 2020

  homunculus, seven, words

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• treat me roughly like the sea makes a fractal splinter

  July 1, 2020

  fractal, roughly, sea, splinter

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• dust in a beam of light this bride to be

  June 29, 2020

  beam of light, bride, dust

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• the mandala in your mind. The soft landing of a fly in

  June 25, 2020

  fly, mandala, mind, soft

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• the moon holding back what laughs you have left

  June 23, 2020

  holding back, laughs, moon

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• squirrel calculus from tree to autumn tree

  June 19, 2020

  calculus, squirrel

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• forest at dawn when she lied like a kaleidoscope

  June 17, 2020

  dawn, forest, kaleidoscope

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• coffee stains another Earth-like planet

  June 15, 2020

  coffee, planet, stains

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• high risk of fire in my bones the dance of pine cones

  June 11, 2020

  fire, pine cones

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• plums drop through her cursive loops sound of the sea

  June 9, 2020

  plums, sea

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• astral projection
  to rhyme
  with orange

  June 5, 2020

  astral projection, orange, rhyme

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• novelty pepper shaker president

  June 3, 2020

  president

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• later little moons your fingernails left in my palm

  June 1, 2020

  fingernails

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• the short time in which children have ceased to be burnt trees

  May 28, 2020

  burnt, children, trees

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• she goes to bed early I think of our first date

  May 26, 2020

  bed, date

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• my name in a woman’s tight hand yellow leaves

  May 21, 2020

  leaves, yellow

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• she holds the umbrella and smiles spring

  May 18, 2020

  spring, umbrella

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• the tight string
  holding my buttons—
  spring

  May 15, 2020

  buttons, string

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• on the edge of a forest though I tried to avoid it

  May 13, 2020

  forest

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• half a robin egg
  in uncut grass
  the day too long

  May 7, 2020

  egg, grass, long, robin

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• a butterfly above cars going nowhere

  May 5, 2020

  butterfly, cars, nowhere

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• the scent of old books
  overpacked
  for the afterlife

  April 27, 2020

  afterlife, books, overpacked, scent

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• after the dive not enough salt in my soup

  April 15, 2020

  dive, salt, soup

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• spring
  my wish
  not to wish

  April 13, 2020

  spring, wish

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• sidewalk pine cone
  scale by scale
  the morning shadows

  March 30, 2020

  morning, pine cone, scale, shadows, sidewalk

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• blossoms in the wind
  I never managed
  to die young

  March 24, 2020

  blossoms, die, wind, young

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• all the little bubbles in the crema alone in Starbucks

  March 23, 2020

  alone, crema, starbucks

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• in the darkened window my ghost leaves fall

  March 19, 2020

  darkened, fall, ghost, leaves, window

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• my mood from one civilization to another

  March 18, 2020

  civilization, mood

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• the world a blossom
  I make up a song
  for my dog

  March 16, 2020

  blossom, dog, song

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• weeds and wildflowers
  all the same
  in this breeze

  March 13, 2020

  breeze, weeds, wildflowers

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• returning without souvenirs the year the dog dies

  March 4, 2020

  dog, returning, souvenirs

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• the nurse’s perfume
  I still think
  I’m the exception

  March 2, 2020

  exception, nurse, perfume

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• small hill of snowdrops on leap day a hole straight through my palm

  February 29, 2020

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• leaving the town of her arms
  once known as brontosaurus

  February 28, 2020

  arms, brontosaurus, town

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• church bells
  far away in black
  the year turns

  December 20, 2019

  bells, black, year

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• how much is enough come ride in my electric life

  August 29, 2018

  electric, life, ride

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