May 2012

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moonlit trail ...
he tracks the centre-line
of a Möbius strip

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wounded sky ...
dawn fingers open
the night

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passing clouds ...
still not the same ones
as yesterday

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folding light—
my words turn in
before hers

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wordless dirge—
reality breezes in
on a chill wind

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funeral wake ...
fitting together once more
each missing piece

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autumn dusk ...
my shadow loosens
its grip

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autumn dusk ...
the descent of light
into its past

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along this path
loneliness rustles
its brushstrokes

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autumn night ...
from across the abyss
a morepork's reply

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too personal!
this body of mine
breaking down

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this emptiness
being filled only
with a morepork's call

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autumn days
delirious
with rust

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autumn dusk ...
the sun flashes off
falling leaves

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centering himself
the laughing child in me
pisses in the snow

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frost at dawn ...
the delicacy of light
melting dreams

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pine harvest ...
a monk prays beneath
tonsured hills

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bastard offspring
of cherry blossoms—
unpetalled words

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into the shadows
of hand-written pages
autumn dusk

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autumn path ...
the abandonment of leaves
splayed out

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sudden rain ...
autumn clouds unravel
around me

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cold season—
tissues masquerade
as sandpaper

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night prayer—
some bird counterpoints
the cantor's silence

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autumn dusk ...
light gives birth
to moons

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incoming fog ...
through the crosshairs of love,
an albatross

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the volcanic life lived calmly