Parallel Poems

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

this –
our body
bled

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

back to this
greenness bleeding
down each leaf

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

name be damned
the russet of leaves
in the wind

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

all at once
the rain
until now
forgotten

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

Otata 6

by candle-light
words fall further than
where we end

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

without the moon
I take a leaf out of
Basho's book

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

leafless now
a transplant seeks out
its roots

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autumn leaves
each day adazzle
in doubt

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birth of stars –
the sky means nothing
in seeming blue

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

dark autumn –
decay deepens its hold
over me

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

in leaf tones
the warmth of company
all but gone

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hippo poto
monstro sesquippedalio
phobia

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failing light –
mine is the darkness
that shadows me

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after a shit
how did my forebears
come clean?

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night thunder . . .
ancestral bodies
warm me still

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lightning:
words remain
unborn

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in time
flashes of night
unmooned

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Otata 6

without light alone lingers

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deep night:
the heartbeat also
is mine

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Otata 6

nothing
overwhelmed with
more of it

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

in autumn rain
an ancestral threnody
of belonging

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autumn night
I read myself deeper
into Buson

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night pain . . .
windows mist over
my soul

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moonlit dew
less than ever
a breath

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Otata 6

deadened
low water laps
old terrors

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Otata 6

nothing
en-worded
in the flesh

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey; Category: May 2016

Otata 6

darkness clings moving into it