December 2017

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Written by: Stephen Bailey

new year's eve . . .
a caterpillar lingers
over its food

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frog haiku torn open to suggestion

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conclave smoke
rising from a cardinal's
cigarette

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stone cold light on a feather

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past its peak
Taranaki loses
its last snow

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haunting
karaoke bars
a drunken muse

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old gargoyle
her eyes give away
what croaks hide

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face to face
desolate beaches
laid bare

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ill at ease
my eyes continue to roam
my dreaming mind

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percussive sun
everybody
must get stoned

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the fire
of birdsong
in a day's embers

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po marie
I bury my words
in te reo

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at the end
of all my wandering
clear cascades

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southern star
a procession of monks
through the abbey

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solstice dusk
a kitten silences
the cicada

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my lineage
weathers into my face
autumn testament

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post mortem
the hedonist hits
his dead-end

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ta moko
a koru unfurls
though my blood

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face to face
with my reflection
on mercy

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a mayfly
fasting from the dream
of forever

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presidential tweet
all and sundry
pee their pants

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feeding off
the sacred mysteries
mistletoe

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left alone
the child becomes
a winter sky

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a river of life
lies in a bed
of its own making

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unfinished with a little

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an image fades
beyond belief
into being

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lone tree effigy of a former self

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in an almost
of the moment
a baby's smile

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dead sea scrolls
the accumulation of words
w/o this out

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windy shore
my word prints wash away
as I make them