January 2020
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mānuka bush
a monarch's shadow
a psalmody of bees
pivots on
pollinating silence
the angelus bell
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the first of four
a pillar of flame
kindling the earth
in hot pursuit
for ignition
of the present
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what is this breath?
a fantail
a breach between
teases out
the mortality
then and now?
moulded into me
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new year
timefall
a glance
tossed backwards
knowing and unknowing
with 2020 vision
sharing
the same root
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an ear
at day’s end
poised to sip
the horizon
on the brink
incoming silence
of being
afterglow
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beginning again
eyes never meeting
wind dialogue
with rain
while
all the time
ocean
with rock
overlapping
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poetry reading
word shadows
the sounds of
a hand-to-mouth
adding weight to
the gravity
existence
of their situation
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a cat's eye
through the dark night
afflicted with
the unseen looms
metonymy
eye to eye
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night terror
all alone
dream-decembering
silence beats harder
being
almost born
lacking fulfillment
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"yes"
a voice
lighter than waves
to lay all doubts
the word
to bear
to rest
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pause within
a pause
figures in light
does the gull
crying above
showing forth the obverse
ensure the sea's
sea-ness?
in being observed
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altar ego
blank page
a word for bread
what species of tree
broken apart
died for this?
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in the lead-up to lent the ego sets upon the narrow road leading to its crucifixion
southern seas
hidden wounds
El Niño beneath
the dark night's
the celestial stream
stigmata of stars