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- Category: June 2014
crescent moon —
she encircles the darkness
only she can see
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- Category: June 2014
star-crammed sky —
all the words that come
to nothing
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tundra —
the continuing thaw
of a single word
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- Category: June 2014
after dusk
silence expands the space
still left
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- Category: June 2014
finger tied
to the end of the world
a skein unwinds
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- Category: June 2014
river fog —
a chiaroscuro of self
word by word
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- Category: June 2014
here it is
standing in for the moon
word for word
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- Category: June 2014
sea shimmer
after the moonlight:
a dearth of words
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- Category: June 2014
with this kiss
Danaë takes shape within
her chrysalis
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- Category: June 2014
dissenting
into the vernacular
the weight of words
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- Category: June 2014
so few words —
the dewfall most acute
in its vanishing
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hear it!
the Lord's Prayer read
from a seashell
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- Category: June 2014
ashen wind —
all the mis-spent words
in my tongue
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- Category: June 2014
leafless tree
how lifeless the dance
this winter
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- Category: June 2014
night storm —
nameless trees flash
up the valley
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- Category: June 2014
winter beach —
the welcoming walls
of an open grave
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- Category: June 2014
hermit crab —
the stream of words sidesteps
the obvious
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- Category: June 2014
with clenched teeth
sea-spray lashes apart
the veneer
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- Category: June 2014
slow flow sap —
the stillbirth of words
dragging clouds
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- Category: June 2014
wood smoke
my loneliness lingers
near the flame
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- Category: June 2014
between here
and the fence post
static whispers
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- Category: June 2014
on the wing
a twitter a halfinch
from my finger
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- Category: June 2014
rising stream —
ancient archetypes
haunt my words
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- Category: June 2014
string theory —
a fly shakes free
from the web
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- Category: June 2014
parting ways
between two streetlights
my shadows
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- Category: June 2014
death mask —
the smile so beguiling
as if it knew
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thunder struck
the sky billows up
in B-flat major
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- Category: June 2014
free verse poet
her paper dress unfolds
before me
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- Category: June 2014
river fog —
a chiaroscuro of self
word by word
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- Category: June 2014
the sea change
at full fathom five
through his eyes
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- Category: June 2014
autumn flag
the bones of Hone Heke
rattle away
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- Category: June 2014
still falling
the fig-leafed flesh
of its fruit
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- Category: June 2014
unmeasured space
the sound of foot-falls
in the yard
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- Category: June 2014
the sound of it
before it ceased to exist —
a big bang
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- Category: June 2014
the dark drift
of a floating point
between galaxies
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- Category: June 2014
winter sport —
the cries of the poor
to wanton boys
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- Category: June 2014
breaking fast —
the nets cast out
for new seas
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- Category: June 2014
fruit-stripped tree —
a flock of lambs gambol
to their slaughter