August 2019
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sharper than silk
with John McManus
resting in the shade
of a rock pool
crab skeletons
daylight reflections caught
by a pincer movement
just beyond
the scorpion’s claws
a new moon
scissored
between starry streams
a dark somewhere
shears covered with cobwebs
in the gloom of dad’s shed
sharper than silk
the strands of belonging
to our origins
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the art of haiku boils down to this
shadows
a toothless old man
emerging
from the fog
sucking marrow
while light dies
from the skeleton
of words
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to be
not to be
traces
of swan-glide
a tomorrow
slashed in water
that never ends
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where hitherto
stay-at-home
words of consecration
my carbon footprint
cannot go
leaves none
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before dawn
stillborn day
enlightenment
awakens
a cockroach scuttles
to a drone attack
from the glare
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deep night vigil
sounds within
a flightless bird
the sounds without
rises within
something slips
in-between
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Otaki Beach
mythic chant
the cosmic silence
stillness roaming about
roaring within words
lonely places
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wolf hour
drizzle-drench day
black swans
drift between
cold
cuts in keener
sleep
and non-sleep
than a sword