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moonlit lake —
the doppler effect
of black swans
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bee loud tree
plum blossoms aquiver
with becoming
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twilight hush . . .
shadows lengthen
earth scent
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under fresh green leaves
my daughter shadow fingers
with the play of light
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at the window
deciphering the code
of spring rain
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first quarter . . .
the light tonight
lukewarm too
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coalsack . . .
shadows well up
to the cross
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dead low water —
I circumnavigate
my comfort zone
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night wind . . .
all around the sound
of not being
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in such light
silence develops the taste
of music
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Southern Cross—
spring light infilling
a gasp, a moon
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hazy moon
hinting of intimacy
shadowed sheets
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puff by puff
a dandelion's space-time
continuum
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night vision . . .
words like a cancer
gnaw through sleep
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stone walls do not freefall blossoms sprung
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she who becomes
the apparition
of her scent
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a part across from a godwit's carbon footprint
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the other—
a sanctuary light
fills her eyes
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on a rock
absorbed in a daydream
summer rain
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with each gust
a gull alights afresh
on the fence
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half moon . . .
a loopworm poised
mid-stride
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out of darkness
and back into it
light-crazed moth
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inhaling clouds
and exhaling more . . .
mountain song
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the day moon
if it has no voice
may not be
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goose bumps—
the yearning within a violin
stretches thinner
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rounded belly
the stone buddha smooth
with age
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here too
blooms a world of change
last month's tree
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lake shadows . . .
thunderclouds brood
in the heat
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brooding wind . . .
a darkness over the sea
that once was moon
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before it
the sound of rain
through the trees
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wind change
birds quieten down
for a whisper
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outburst of spring . . .
wintering over all
the Milky Way
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old leaf rot . . .
from ruptured seed
rising green
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along this path
the way of the ancients
as clear water
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twilight hush
empty glasses too
brim with darkness
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a wood pigeon
in the forest canopy
wings an ancient sound
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is it to see
the moon behind the cloud
the deathmask eyes?
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such wonder too
breaks down into silence
trickling stream
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this deep
into the interior
where the spring?
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the darkness
circling Makara
in the gull's cry
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muddy pond—
a frog dives into
pre-existence
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entering deeper
the mind's underbelly
of curdled clouds
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spring rain
baptismal calligraphy
in the font
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fresh green leaf
her sleeping-down head
a-lay on me
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the sea also
longing longing longing
to break ashore
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after-dream . . .
my empty pages
on tenterhooks
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autumn dusk . . .
the sound of daydreams
entering water
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day after day
the deepening terror
of a still pond
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mirror lake—
one stillness expecting
another
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river fog
dreams rise around me
painting light
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in dark wings
breath before
there is light
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rite of passage
town after town blooming
golden arches
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prayer fall
until breath gives up
even meaning
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joyful mystery . . .
a heartbeat quickens
from the dungeon
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words not quite
fitting the isness
of all this