January 2014

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Written by: Stephen Bailey

gong fu cha —
a shadow passes between
then and now

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summer breeze —
kiwi kigo hung out
to dry

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river song twisting through time

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southern sky —
from heaven's pointers
a wooden cross

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within sight
candlelight crossmembers
an altar

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under the mist
i separate land
and sky

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cloudless moon —
a poet disinfecting
death

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digitally remastered silence

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heaven scent —
summer rain anoints
shaky grounds

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death knell . . .
a river mouth
exacts its toll

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all innocents . . .
some faces less livid
than others

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twilight dusk —
the bruises of life
less livid

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with the sea
the rockpool of friends
from my hands

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southern cross —
these arms weighed down
with night

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tui —
i hear half
its song

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roadkill —
the fly-blown voice
of the unborn

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breathstop . . .
a praying mantis
shifts weight

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another moon —
still the otherness
of her body

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freckle-face
her wrinkling nose becomes
newsworthy

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never alone . . .
blanket man paces out
the southern cross

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haiku moon —
a morepork recites
to its own

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under the moon
her hands cup the gift
of her self

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awakening
from such light caress
a peony's folds

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gaping wound —
a poem
without the moon

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what of it?
cherry blossoms
and the moon

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wild honey —
how the clover glows
in her eyes!

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keeping still
I deepen my roots
in the void

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my footprint
as if it matters
I once am

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rising tide
eyes awash with the moon
two by two

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my footprint
soled, souled, sold
silting up