June 2014

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crescent moon —

she encircles the darkness

only she can see

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star-crammed sky —

all the words that come

to nothing

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tundra —

the continuing thaw

of a single word

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the vastness!

all that is concealed

by light

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first light . . .

let what is

be done

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first cause

before we had

the words

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after dusk

silence expands the space

still left

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clear water

to free simplicity

of the words

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my hours

intoned by tuis

and moreporks

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a fantail

among the shadows

my every move

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star fire

arcing a self-made

abyss

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finger tied

to the end of the world

a skein unwinds

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Naad Anunaad

beyond me

the echo of a song

once me

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river fog —

a chiaroscuro of self

word by word

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here it is

standing in for the moon

word for word

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sea shimmer

after the moonlight:

a dearth of words

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insomnia

yesterday yawns

behind me

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with this kiss

Danaë takes shape within

her chrysalis

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dissenting

into the vernacular

the weight of words

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earth mother:
the you I once knew
now my dream

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at sunset
a sea anemone
sucks in her blush

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from my pen
an hallucination
of loose ends

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so few words —
the dewfall most acute
in its vanishing

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twilit beach
in the undertow
of silence

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hear it!
the Lord's Prayer read
from a seashell

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organo-intellectual compost bins

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this and that consensual haikucide

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nature just being its ultimate ontology

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ashen wind —
all the mis-spent words
in my tongue

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the wind
tearing up the eyes
mine beheld

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