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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

cancer ward
the permanent markers 
running low

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

cancer ward
we breathe each breath 
mindfully

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

her lover
breaks through the brushstrokes
of her sullen art

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

moon blossom —
another bull shits
its aha

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

from my pen
an hallucination
of loose ends

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

my shadow reflects
on its life
before there was light

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

fiat umbra
my shadow recreates
its sense of self

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

my shadow
masters the art
of camouflage

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

my shadow
fails to find a life
of its own

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Prune Juice 29

my shadow
parodies
my carbon footprint

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

a sundial pauses
for my shadow's
passing

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

my shadow
decodes messages hidden
to the naked eye

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Prune Juice 29

my shadow
fills out my application
to be myself

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Prune Juice 29

my shadow
an elastic band
to the sun

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

my shadow
hellbent in pursuit
of nightfall

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • parallel
  • Otata 47
receding light
at dead low water  
my interior landscape's
where meaning lies 
inverse presence
and distance ends  
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Otata 47
compline—
we enter  
shadows seize my breath
our perfect expression  
in soundlessness
without words 
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

facing extinction
fat cats lick
their nether regions

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

climate change debate
we dignify the old fart
with silence

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

turning over a new leaf
the climate change denier
bites the dust

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019

a paedophile
lusts after
his younger self

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Failed Haiku 47

I miss the train
while listening to
people get ready

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Failed Haiku 47

writers block . . .
I see a minstrel
and want to paint it black

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Failed Haiku 47

moving sultrily
to a very cellular song
the blonde sucks me in

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Failed Haiku 47

not yet dead
the long lost track
of my generation

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: October 2019
  • Failed Haiku 47

dazed and confused
our love flies
like a lead balloon

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