October 2015
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
a helicopter
crystallises into sound
from the blueness
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
rising light—
clouds effervesce along
day's plimsoll line
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
grey matter
on an intercept course
between seer and seen
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
after a spent day
words sink back into the slime
of their origin
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
the stillness
after the birth
unravelling star charts
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cancer ward
nothing imagined now
is not the moon
in memory of H. Gene Murtha
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twilight walk—
a pregnant girl praises me
for going barefoot
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
waxing crescent—
the earth-borne fresh-faced
their song primal
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midnight—
my lungs widen
with stars
THF Per Diem Archive
World of Haiku: Poets of New Zealand
World of Haiku: Poets of New Zealand
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
distant spring—
a sixtieth candle
still unlit