May 2016
May 2016
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this –
our body
bled
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back to this
greenness bleeding
down each leaf
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name be damned
the russet of leaves
in the wind
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all at once
the rain
until now
forgotten
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by candle-light
words fall further than
where we end
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without the moon
I take a leaf out of
Basho's book
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leafless now
a transplant seeks out
its roots
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autumn leaves
each day adazzle
in doubt
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birth of stars –
the sky means nothing
in seeming blue
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dark autumn –
decay deepens its hold
over me
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in leaf tones
the warmth of company
all but gone
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hippo poto
monstro sesquippedalio
phobia
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failing light –
mine is the darkness
that shadows me
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after a shit
how did my forebears
come clean?
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night thunder . . .
ancestral bodies
warm me still
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lightning:
words remain
unborn
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in time
flashes of night
unmooned
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without light alone lingers
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deep night:
the heartbeat also
is mine
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nothing
overwhelmed with
more of it
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in autumn rain
an ancestral threnody
of belonging
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autumn night
I read myself deeper
into Buson
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night pain . . .
windows mist over
my soul
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moonlit dew
less than ever
a breath
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deadened
low water laps
old terrors
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nothing
en-worded
in the flesh
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darkness clings moving into it