November 2014

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all saints day

light's cathedral

of clouds

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communion host

for a moment I shed

isolation

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night ravishes

the disconnection

between stars

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east to west

haiku blown along

the scenic route

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over dew

the rising sun

of the future

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after dusk

a noonday demon's

'twick or tweet'

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all saints day

a cathedral of light

on its knees

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stellar crux

scared no longer

sacred scars

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All Soul's Day

a star's understudy

in the wings

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this light

from Aldebaran

at my birth

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at last

with twilit birds

the stillness

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city rain—

a downtrodden moon

underfoot

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errant breeze

child and laureate

chase the same words

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against the ropes

a city loses

its flavour

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turbulent mist—

all that is to become

lost in becoming

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denatured love . . .

avarice ages into

its majority

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on the altar

intoning incense

holy fire

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on Gallipoli

the cannon fodder

of empire

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be this

merciful as I am

imperfect

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democratic might

fighting for the right to kill

without compunction

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spring storm . . .

my roots, how deep

do they go?

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spring deluge

terror takes on

my son's name

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what bird is that

singing of light

yet to be?

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cosmic tide—

between coming

and going

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chaos theory . . .

a verb edges between

subject and object

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Nanking bet—

a hundred heads roll

their eyes

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fog-smudged

the melodrama

of sea and sky

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behold him!

a desolate beach

being born

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touchstone moon

enlightenment pales

under it

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on her stillness

the disfigurement

of a fly's shadow

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