Category: Haiku

• thanks for the retweet my pot is boiling over

  August 28, 2018

  boiling, pot, retweet

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• brown patches on the lawn in back of my throat

  August 27, 2018

  brown patches, lawn, throat

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• secrets in these walls a cicada buzzing on its back

  August 23, 2018

  cicada, secrets

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• after meeting with the oracle a new flavor in the blood

  August 22, 2018

  blood, flavor, oracle

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• the goldilocks zone of regret the factory of leaves leaves

  August 14, 2018

  factory, goldilocks zone, leaves, regret

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• in the north a beetle whose shell reflects a break with our stars

  August 13, 2018

  beetle, break, north, reflects, shell, stars

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• summer afternoon
  the cloud saga
  just begun

  August 10, 2018

  afternoon, cloud, saga, summer

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• my untitled document on Saturn yet another moon

  August 8, 2018

  document, moon, Saturn, untitled

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• like electrolysis for the verbs in your summer garden

  August 7, 2018

  electrolysis, garden, summer, verbs

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• and softly breaks on the second sparrow’s song

  August 3, 2018

  softly, song, sparrow

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• a fateful glitch in the holographic president’s ancient code

  January 9, 2018

  ancient, code, glitch, holographic president

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• resident devil shrink pixel-small fly out with this breath

  January 5, 2018

  breath, devil, fly, pixel

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• October my face falls like a leaf I bow to Orion

  January 4, 2018

  face, leaf, October, Orion

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• he promises black skies and a paw in every thorn

  December 23, 2017

  black skies, paw, promises, thorn

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• brick wrapped in wallpaper and his stupid toupee

  December 21, 2017

  brick, toupee, wallpaper

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• rain through the night again the dream of chewing glass

  December 20, 2017

  chewing glass, dream, night, rain

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• she laughs as the pink purple flowers of wild mint might

  December 19, 2017

  flowers, laughs, mint, pink, purple, wild

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• this tender wound from which flowers hope it never heals

  December 16, 2017

  flowers, heal, never, tender, wound

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• white blossom ache in the long bones of the moon

  December 15, 2017

  blossom, bones, moon, white

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• language of dead white ones. Turn the page and

  December 14, 2017

  dead, language, page, white

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• night shift at the poison factory a radio set to static

  December 13, 2017

  night shift, poison factory, radio

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• worms with familiar faces plunder the emotion of lightning

  December 12, 2017

  faces, lightning, worms

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• black licorice in plastic dreamless sleep

  December 11, 2017

  dreamless, licorice, plastic, sleep

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• black by stars: gap in the smile: annunciation

  December 9, 2017

  annunciation, black, gap, smile, stars

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• I darken
  a blank
  page
  at night
  hoping for stars

  December 8, 2017

  blank, page, stars

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• which tracks an elastic mood. In her sea you see

  December 7, 2017

  elastic mood, sea, tracks

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• I see your crab prince and raise an abalone shell

  December 6, 2017

  abalone, crab price, shell

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• with a shrug America turns a pigeon into a dinosaur

  December 5, 2017

  America, dinosaur, pigeon, shrug

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• tiny flies furiously scrub a knife of light

  December 4, 2017

  flies, knife, light, scrub

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• boulders and other human words twilight as a verb

  December 1, 2017

  boulders, twilight, verb, words

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• failing that another body part can be displayed such as the crocus

  November 30, 2017

  body part, crocus, display

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• spring a girl with a hand-written letter on a leash

  November 29, 2017

  leash, letter, spring

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• to be her long tail lost in the Milky Way

  November 28, 2017

  lost, milky way, tail

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• everything

  the mockingbird says

  with its tail

  November 27, 2017

  mockingbird, says, tail

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• my mouth at right angles to loneliness a little song

  November 26, 2017

  loneliness, mouth, right angles, song

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• animals you see only when they die shorter days

  November 25, 2017

  animals, die, shorter days

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• in the days of the shogun everyone had the same ringtone

  November 24, 2017

  ringtone, shogun

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• a dinner of delicate crystals for the latest refugees

  November 23, 2017

  crystals, dinner, refugees

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• no one coins a word
  for a group of you
  horseshoe crabs

  November 22, 2017

  coin, horseshoe crabs, word

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• thin moon

  the bone

  in a corset

  November 20, 2017

  bone, corset, moon, thin

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• because sleep is close to death 

  I’m an iamb

  June 18, 2016

  death, iamb, sleep

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• to find my purpose google blackbirds say no

  June 14, 2016

  blackbirds, google, no, purpose

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• magically repairs vinyl and the color of asters

  June 12, 2016

  asters, color, magically, vinyl

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• my soft horns 

  poking through 

  wisteria

  June 11, 2016

  horns, soft, wisteria

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• any other metal would tarnish some sunny afternoon

  June 9, 2016

  afternoon, metal, sunny, tarnish

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• how long the grass holds her breath

  June 7, 2016

  breath, grass, holds

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• tracks to stay warm in the hollow moon

  June 7, 2016

  hollow, moon, tracks, warm

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• blueberries because he dies on every page

  March 18, 2015

  blueberries, dies, page

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• the here here

  amidst tulips’

  untidy deaths

   

  March 17, 2015

  deaths, here, tulip, untidy

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• the dog pulls me faster in frozen wind the star

  December 18, 2014

  dog, frozen, star, wind

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• cold sun
  Folsom Prison Blues
  one more time

  October 29, 2014

  cold, Folsom Prison Blues, sun

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• autumn rain
  rewriting my to-do list
  all day

  October 22, 2014

  autumn, list, rain

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• bare branches a scary movie I haven’t seen

  October 15, 2014

  bare branches, movie, scary

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• autumn advice for the son I never had

  October 9, 2014

  advice, autumn, son

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• October
  what flowers are left
  lie down

  October 8, 2014

  flowers, October

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