June 2015
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
spring cleaning —
examining his conscience
the prosecutor
(after a Basho hokku)
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Tui Variations on a Theme
winter coat
winter coat
the tui riffs off
'nevermore'
:
spring portal
a tui becomes
my rusty gate
my rusty gate
:
a tui
as if there is
no tomorrow
:
out of breath
the tui waits out
the moment
:
out of gods
the tui sounds out
room for doubt
:
before light
irridescence sinks
in a tui
:
the tui
lost for words
bobs his throat
:
over and over
the tui sounds out
the sense of now
:
day moon viewing
a tui sounds light and dark
all at once
:
nectar-gorged
the tui communes
with itself
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Darkness
dog
breath
with
its coming
back
is
God
:
awake
only in
the
midst
of it
:
rerum
novarum
the progress
of light
across
the working
slum
:
knowing it
the soft
susurration
of
nay-sayers
:
'nevermore'
a raven fills the mouths
of the poor
:
extinct
light douses
a nocturne
:
solstice night —
what does it profit
amid the stars?
:
so
eloquent
drip by drip
the withdrawal
of
sight