April 2012
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april fools ...
a merchant bottles
river fog
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april rain ...
trees splatter blood
with each nail
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an old man
crunching oak leaves ...
lonely path
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godwit prints
mark where they were
and this ache ...
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bubbling spring ...
joy bursts between
old photos
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paschal moon ...
dark matter ravishes
the light
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paschal moon ...
light struggles through
the abyss
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paschal moon ...
darkness engulfs
the garden
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paschal moon ...
crosses litter
the highway
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paschal moon ...
sunrise lingers
in its tomb
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easter vigil ...
Jesus waits entombed
in teeming malls
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shorter days ...
crosses litter paths
with shadows
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after dusk ...
shadows crucify
the light
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morning glory ...
shopping malls open
their doors
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unquenched love ...
rising floods too
drain away
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gliding
out of season -
black swans
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autumn fog ...
brush strokes level
a mountain
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second childhood -
a pendulum clock
now marks time
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cats in love -
the familiar ache
from this touch
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after summer --
even embers spend
their passion
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day of reckoning
the penitent renders
his due
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with nightfall
even embers spend
their passion
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waiting room -
shadows lengthen
the queue
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silent spring ...
the song in my heart
has sprouted wings
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distant spring ...
rain trickles over
autumn leaves
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one by one
leaves fall away ...
autumn wind
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paschal moon ...
the light within
death valley
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rough-hewn wood
yields now to nails ...
tree of life
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second day ...
what stones weigh down
those wings?