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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014

childhood joy outstretching light years

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
how intent the cat
and over the city din
the death throes of stars
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Category: December 2014
at odds
with the memory . . .
blossoms
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Category: December 2014
the way back
encrypted within 
a monarch's wings
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Category: December 2014
broken wing—
lost in the opiate
of being
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Category: December 2014
at its heart
a darkening rose's
summer lust
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
ground fog . . .
a swan stretches out
the hush
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Category: December 2014
the play 
of shadows passing 
for a god
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
morning cool—
a variety of birds
rise in song
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Category: December 2014
sheltering
behind macrocarpas . . .
the warmth within
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Category: December 2014
winds wailing
against macrocarpas . . .
such stillness
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Category: December 2014
regardless
the coffin's descent
inch by inch
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Category: December 2014
sparrow dusk—
a wind swallows up
the last words
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Category: December 2014
viscous night—
shadows suffocating
on darkness
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Category: December 2014
              haiku
another          out of line
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Category: December 2014
the milky way
sowing seeds
of contemplation
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Category: December 2014
this silence
dwelling still before
change is 
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
sun shafts—
golden streams flush out
a peed ant
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
the way of the rose—
the rouged cheeks of dalliance
no longer quench me
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
morning call—
not clear in this heat
the sense of it
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
low cloud
my mind enters
its limits
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
torpid sun
the shadow of me 
bends to my will
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Category: December 2014
unborn babe,
do you breathe also
your absence?
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Category: December 2014
darkness wavers
at its lowest ebb
solstice night
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
solstice—
9pm and still
the sun's light
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Category: December 2014
advent ends—
an unapproachable light
enters the tent
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Category: December 2014
blessed be he
who gives his blessings
the light he sees
in the mud of the mundane
shall be his inheritance
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
boxing day
my eyes squint between
here and now
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Category: December 2014
longer days— 
my eyes zero in on
the milky way
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Category: December 2014
crackling ice— 
vapour infused gin
cools the sun
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Category: December 2014
first cicada—
a lawnmower competes
in the distance
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Category: December 2014
hissing light—
the sound of darkness
on the street
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014

for God's sake
                          turn out

     the lights

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
lights out—
what word is left
for this?
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014
rats dog,                      god star,
evil emit reviled           deliver time live
live morf                      from evil
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: December 2014

year's end where the world is

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