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March 2016

March 2016

a song

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
a song
in the making
of its silence

autumn leaves

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
autumn leaves
not now but then
when winter comes

within

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
within
without a breath
dead words

mud-baked

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
mud-baked
a phantom dwelling
under the basho

nothing more

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nothing more
the ever-presence
death evades

trumpet rally

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
trumpet rally
evangelicals summon
their golden calf

tapping still

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
tapping still
against my eye-lids
cave-red palms

breath pause

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breath pause . . .
a moment's suspension
in monotones

autumn rain

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autumn rain . . .
I write myself out
of my haiku
 
 

a race memory

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a race memory relaxes into its present tense

morning light

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
morning light
a good day to die
to oneself

there where

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there where i am no longer

autumn morn

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autumn morn . . .
a monarch rises up
its gibbet

after the fall

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after the fall
fifty shades
of pink

autumn rise

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autumn rise . . .
rustles of the past
in the wind

wine-dark eyes

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wine-dark eyes . . .
across a drunken sea
purpling grapes

selfie-bait

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selfie-bait
t(w)ittering behind
fanned fingers

on cue

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on cue
a line-up
of falling leaves

a leaf

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
a leaf
alert at last
in autumn rain

all in all

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all in all
an ocean washes up
in birth cries
 

left behind

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left behind
a prophetic utterance
of its ending
 

step by step

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step by step
we continue on
alone
 

a dream

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a dream I make of the just now

now and then

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now and then
I become the wake 
I leave behind
 

all at sea

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all at sea
a wine drop dark
to its soul
 

until her smile

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until her smile
just a universe
becoming
 
 

on edge

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on edge
my pen tip at odds
with my words
 
 

autumn light

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
autumn light
mountains solidify
into view

Lent deepens

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Lent deepens –
will stones stave off
this hunger?

Lenten light

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Lenten light –
I see by it now 
what I am not

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