Parallel Poems

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bread and wine—

nectarine flesh stained

with plum juice

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parched lawn—

I quicken to the scent

of fresh rain

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altar light . . .

the fire the cold say

just isn't

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hen party

a maid cocks a snook

at the bride

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last light . . .

I cast aside words

to enter it

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Middle-earth

a migrant magpie

lost in space

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Failed Haiku 38

resting its case

a kangaroo court leaps

into recess

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wailing wind . . .

the birth-blood of night

drowns my voice

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dark energy

bird-like

the gravity

her mind

defies

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by moonlight

deep scanning still waters

of almost

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its is-ness

stained in metaphors

river-stone

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autumn dawn—

behind my eyes light leaves

a yawning void

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honeycomb—

herein the fountain

of youth

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at odds with

the song of the earth

a lone cicada

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summer haiku—

wrestling with the word

of angels

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aflame at dusk

a tui opens darkness

up to song

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moonrise

light filters through

a face palm

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night rain

sans stars sans moon

sans souciance

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shadow play—

the moon, the tides

and I

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once more

on the outer

day moon

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in this bar too

ancient gods brood over

wine-dark seas

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before light

a breeze murmuring

soundless words

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massing clouds

my eyes strip the sky

of silence

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new moon

lighting what's left

of the night

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step by step

finding nowhere

to go

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heaven

without a stairway

heads within

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half moon

making light of

drone targets

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awake at dawn

tree bird and mountain

called by name

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haiku—

my field of vision

narrows

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alone at last

a spider navigates

a wider web

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big bang—

the past that nags

at my heels

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earthbound voice

naming the one fall

that sticks

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rolling sky—

a hedgehog nudges

past its past

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newlyweds

a glowering sky

and her brow

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ancient quill

secreting life

in a notebook

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shifting light . . .

every nuance

of the rock

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migrant smile

another buddha

goes neon

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autumn dusk

the darkening rose

of her sneeze

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fallen star

the value of nickel

in loose change

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cloud wisps

a bird's flight

from the nest

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worker bees

neither here

nor there

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haiku

mangled into

English stew

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one - no two

stars unable to

count on

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down under

the prevailing wind

wins over

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time returns a novel way

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mushroom cloud—

the nucleus of reason

grows unclear

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the sound

my native tongue makes

reading haiku

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out of sight

a red dwarf hides

nearest

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late summer . . .

cicadas shuffle sound

nonchalantly

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ebb-tide moon

the ouroboros

trailing me

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without guile

a prima donna's

death scene

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side to side

the coop intruder's

darting eyes

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dawn chorus . . .

light mimes its coming

noisily

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now and then . . .

the lapping sound

of the moon