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May 2012

Written on 24 May 2022.

pining
for Basho ...
the pines


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

forsaking pines
Ferdinand learns
something else


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

by moonlight
lovers' fingers mesh
into dreams


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

for tonight
let us all be dying ...
radiant cloud


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

nonchalant
the cat grooms itself ...
cesium rain


Written on 24 May 2022.

dew drops
tracing the filaments
of dreams


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

autumn morn ...
light grows crisp
underfoot


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

perigee moon
brightly prophesying
the death of stars


Written on 24 May 2022.

Easter joy ...
even more closely
out of reach


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

a child places
a finger to her lips—
God whispers


Written on 24 May 2022.

river fog—
he opens his poem
to silence

Written on 24 May 2022.

greengages—
sweetness ripples
her lips


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

fifth Sunday ...
silence wells up
in the clouds


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

spring storm ...
the river of stars
flooding her


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

dawn maiden ...
the long day's journey
into night


Written on 24 May 2022.

autumn love ...
moonlight silences
the rumpled bed


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

youthful blush ...
Oh! Celia, Celia,
Celia shits!


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

after the dew
sunrise ravishes
the rose


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

autumn sky ...
celebrating
cloud masses


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

shooting season ...
a refuge of ducks
lower their sights


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

howling winds
gnash at tossing dreams ...
sea debris


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

unfolding
from a crumpled bed
this aftertaste


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

wordless poem ...
birdsong brings relief
to my longing


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

moonlit night ...
the mottling of goose bumps
on her thighs


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

a moth sails
the widening gyre ...
candle flame


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

hidden depths ...
a dragonfly skims
what I cannot


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

pretending
to forget, I gasp at
a rainbow


 

Written on 24 May 2022.

purple rain ...
casting words adrift
into God


Written on 24 May 2022.

river fog ...
my hands trace out
what has gone

Written on 24 May 2022.

enso sun—
the negative space of
a full eclipse


 

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