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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2012
  • Notes from the Gean 4-1

by moonlight,
lovers' fingers mesh
into dreams . . .

 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: April 2012

april fools ...
a merchant bottles
river fog

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Category: April 2012

april rain ...
trees splatter blood
with each nail

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an old man
crunching oak leaves ...
lonely path

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godwit prints
mark where they were
and this ache ...

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bubbling spring ...
joy bursts between
old photos

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paschal moon ...
dark matter ravishes
the light

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Category: April 2012

paschal moon ...
light struggles through
the abyss

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paschal moon ...
darkness engulfs
the garden

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paschal moon ...
crosses litter
the highway

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paschal moon ...
sunrise lingers
in its tomb

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easter vigil ...
Jesus waits entombed
in teeming malls

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shorter days ...
crosses litter paths
with shadows

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Category: April 2012

after dusk ...
shadows crucify
the light

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morning glory ...
shopping malls open
their doors

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unquenched love ...
rising floods too
drain away

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Category: April 2012

gliding
out of season -
black swans

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Category: April 2012

autumn fog ...
brush strokes level
a mountain

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Category: April 2012

second childhood -
a pendulum clock
now marks time

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Category: April 2012

cats in love -
the familiar ache
from this touch

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Category: April 2012

after summer --
even embers spend
their passion

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Category: April 2012

day of reckoning
the penitent renders
his due

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Category: April 2012

with nightfall
even embers spend
their passion

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Category: April 2012

waiting room -
shadows lengthen
the queue

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Category: April 2012

silent spring ...
the song in my heart
has sprouted wings

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Category: April 2012

distant spring ...
rain trickles over
autumn leaves

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Category: April 2012

one by one
leaves fall away ...
autumn wind

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paschal moon ...
the light within
death valley

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Category: April 2012

rough-hewn wood
yields now to nails ...
tree of life

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Category: April 2012

second day ...
what stones weigh down
those wings?

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morning star ...
dewdrops moisten
worm cast mounds

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Category: April 2012

fallen leaves
going the distance ...
field of dreams

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Category: April 2012

leaves on edge ...
menacing winds
on the move

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Category: April 2012

Fukushima ...
an efflorescence
blossoms

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Category: April 2012

mirror mist ...
the name of God
runs in beads


 

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Category: April 2012

river fog -
the murmur of
foetal dreams

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Category: April 2012

dimming light ...
black swans dissolve
before me

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Category: April 2012

gnawing at
the dream of myself -
spring reflection

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Category: April 2012

creaking joints -
again he brings down
the house

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Category: April 2012

mist reveals
each valley's fold...
secret flux

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Category: April 2012

flea-bitten child -
an apparition of
cherry blossoms

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Category: April 2012

pale fire
snatching blossoms
from the sun

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Category: April 2012

foetal moon ...
the heartbeat flickering
in these candles

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Category: April 2012

dewfall ...
bread rises
from words

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Category: April 2012

words spiral
into ink smudges -
falling leaves

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Category: April 2012

pain carves
a pretense of words ...
chiselled moon

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