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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2013
  • Under the Basho 2013

expanding night . . .
the sound of a morepork
between stars


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2013

pre-dawn chill . . .
backwash from night's flotilla
of dreams


 

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Category: January 2013

at year's end . . .
already the marbling
of her skin


 

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Category: January 2013

night winds . . .
the ones that blew
in childhood


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Category: January 2013

dry winds . . .
a premonition
of green


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Category: January 2013

summer shadows —
a Noh play unfolds
around me


 

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Category: January 2013

summer stream —
does the mayfly in mating
know why?


 

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Category: January 2013

summer stream —
a mayfly breeding
shadows


 

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fossil forest —
incoming waves obscure
another past


 

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Category: January 2013

a blue rinse
of withering clouds . . .
wind from the west


 

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Category: January 2013

ancient garden . . .
a slug retraces the glow
of its path


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Category: January 2013

before dawn . . .
a pilgrim among mangroves
sighing mist


 

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Category: January 2013

new year leap . . .
the sound of water
near and far


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Category: January 2013

these traces of dreams . . .
high winds shaping cloud layers
of indifference


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Category: January 2013

summer rose —
the fire of its bloom
within its scent


 

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Category: January 2013

morning fog —
the brushstrokes of a dream
painting day


 

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Category: January 2013

a tv somewhere
numbing the sound of nothing —
moonless night


 

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Category: January 2013

rainforest . . .
traces of a butterfly
incensing shadows


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Category: January 2013

rippling
in water's sound —
tadpoles


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Category: January 2013

one half
after the other . . .
full moon


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Category: January 2013

the moon . . .
the moon it becomes
in her eyes


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Category: January 2013

her ankles . . .
the path into the mist
so endless!


 

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Category: January 2013

first light . .
darkness trickles away
with the dewfall


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Category: January 2013

nether dreams —
a noke worm beating
about the bush


 

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Category: January 2013

desolate beach —
silence gnaws away
at the edges


 

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Category: January 2013

summer heat . . .
fractal equations
melt away


 

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Category: January 2013

dawn vigil . . .
light in silence
becomes light


 

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Category: January 2013

night maneuvers —
arching over old boulders,
a river of dreams


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Category: January 2013

heat wave . . .
a pond shuffles off
its sheen


 

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Category: January 2013

hot spot . . .
the touch of a leaf
on my boil


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Category: January 2013

plumb line —
the poet aims each word
for the heart


 

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Category: January 2013

less than
one hundred gourds . . .
space to dream


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Category: January 2013

now and then . . .
chimney smoke curling
through branches


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Category: January 2013

storm front . . .
feverish fingers
letting loose


 

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Category: January 2013

rippling
in water's sound —
tadpoles


 

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Category: January 2013

thick mist ...
within it a wanderer
chasing phantoms


 

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Category: January 2013

wind duet —
a flute undermines
the bassoon


 

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Category: January 2013

after the feast
the quality of odour
is unrestrained


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Category: January 2013

ginko walk —
an urban poet
musing through sewers


 

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Category: January 2013

the hack poet
trumpeting his songs
behind him


 

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Category: January 2013

first love —
the elegance
of her farts


 

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fart alerts
measuring out passages
of meaning


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fart wars —
goose-stepping explosions
between their legs


 

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Category: January 2013

lightning storm!
the time between fart
and fragrance


 

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Category: January 2013

hitting
the motherlode —
a dung beetle


 

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Category: January 2013

meteor storm . . .
a ruminant ponders
its fate


 

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Category: January 2013

fart alerts
measuring out passages
of time


 

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Category: January 2013

perfect love
the elegance
of her farts


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Category: January 2013

ill winds . . .
stale farts rehearsing
day's decay


 

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Category: January 2013

eulogy lengthening sighs through the cypress


 

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Category: January 2013

flea flowering blooms in babysoft white


 

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Category: January 2013

trickling stream —
the mosaic its flow
makes of me


 

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