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- Category: June 2013
autumn's end . . .
a vulture turns over
the pieces
urban garden . . .
among skeletal trees
a vulture waits
summer grasses . . .
a vulture circles over
soldier's dreams
stricken ill
a vulture scavenges
extant dreams
dawn parade . . .
a vulture flies itself
at half-mast
moon halo —
the vulture eyes
a ring finger
Irish stew —
finnegan's wake
of vultures
branching out —
vultures in committee
form a quorum
a vulture
sniffs out the state
of Denmark
seventh day . . .
vultures feed on the
afterbirth
pas de deux . . .
a vulture outsmarts
the crow
darkening sky . . .
vultures keep watch over
a vale of tears
empty sky . . .
a vulture returns
to fuck all
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- Category: June 2013
an ode nightingale
pours forth its ecstatic heart . . .
do I wake or sleep?
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mirror lake . . .
a mallard upends
within itself
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cold silence!
it twists into the night
like a knife
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twilight dusk —
a bell bird trembles
on its trill
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autumn's end . . .
a vulture turns over
the pieces
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- Category: June 2013
urban garden . . .
among skeletal trees
a vulture waits
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- Category: June 2013
summer grasses . . .
a vulture circles over
soldier's dreams
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- Category: June 2013
dawn parade . . .
a vulture flies itself
at half-mast
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branching out —
vultures in committee
form a quorum
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seventh day . . .
vultures feed on the
afterbirth
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- Category: June 2013
darkening sky . . .
vultures keep watch over
a vale of tears
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- Category: June 2013
autumn coda . . .
a reverie of paw prints
across her briefs
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lengthening shadows . . .
an undertaker moves
under a plantain
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the wet dreams
that fall from wind-torn leaves —
a young night
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greyscale dawn . . .
the yesterday forgotten
again today
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blowing itself over the sea,
there's no place for winter wind
to go back
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prism break . . .
red white and blue leaks
through the cracks
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funeral vigil . . .
eternity yawns between
each 'Hail Mary'
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a parson bird sings
in both the present
and the past . . .
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in silence
in the gap between breaths
. . . a fantail
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across the valley
drift ancestral voices;
with each rise and fall
of her still sleeping breast
moonlight enters my breath
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- Category: June 2013
winter rain!
is this the rhythm
of a death poem?
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- Category: June 2013
all day rain . . .
darkness now soaks me
to the skin
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- Category: June 2013
bitter wind . . .
the suburban totems
leafless at last
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stormy night . . .
rain sounds flay me
bit by bit
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on the living
and on the newly dead —
wintry rain
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polar storm . . .
a taste of darkness
without end
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the wind darkens
within my listening —
longest night
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icy veins . . .
the wind parts a way
to the deep north
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winter storm —
the sound of one colour
blowing still
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late spring . . .
a bull snuffs out
the flowers
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breathless dawn —
a mosaic of leaves
lighten up
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dawn breaks out
in tongues of fire . . .
frosted earth
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swaying reed —
the flutemaker reads
a closed book
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- Category: June 2013
wintry night —
streetlights overlap
shapes of me