January 2017

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• Otata 13

midnight hunt . . .
every pulse pledged
to the prey

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• Otata 13

midsummer night
the moon hangs about
like a suicide

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• Otata 13

moonlit sea
bound to me in this ditch
of ownership

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• Otata 13

my heartbeat
on mesolithic time
once more

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my shadow
in the shadow
of no-self

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n! = (by
olfactorial equations)
the rose known

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new notebook
an abyss yawns open
to my voice

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news of war
teens eye their figures
up and down

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• Otata 13

night falls on
night falling on
a dark sea

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no more mind
just the ebb and flow
of a sea

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now here in a nick in time

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olive stone -
a mass surveillance branch
all but snowed in

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• Prune Juice 21

on a narrow road
to the heart of the moment
before time began

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• Otata 13

open hand . . .
her call curls out from
the unheard

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• Prune Juice 21
• Prune Juice Book of Senryu: celebrating 10 years

paper cranes . . .
I bend time and space
a thousand times

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• Sonic Boom 8

petrichor
a snail practices
our absence

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• Right Hand Pointing #107

plagued by silence
a ruru mimics the sound
of the dark night

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• Otata 13
• Number Eight Wire - The Fourth New Zealand Haiku Anthology

pond ripple . . .
the one I am
no more

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• Otata 13

still life . . .
all my colours
from dusk

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• Otata 13

still us –
sounds aflutter
enter the light

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• Right Hand Pointing #107

sultry night
my birthplace rattles
its chains

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swollen night
the pre-cum of dawn
bends a leaf

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the darkness
of my mood
colours the toast

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• Prune Juice 21

the reflections
of an alien species
out of my mind

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the wind
winds up
a cat

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ululations of immortality

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• Otata 13

up, down
a leaf adrift
or not

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windfallen
on manicured lawns
Sappho's ashes

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windy day -
stretching the truth
across clouds