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Haiku Notebook 2019

Written on 23 January 2020.

twilight zone
the shadows I cannot bear
to be parted from

Written on 23 January 2020.

dazed and confused
our love flies
like a lead balloon

  • Failed Haiku 47

Written on 23 January 2020.

not yet dead
the long lost track
of my generation

  • Failed Haiku 47

Written on 23 January 2020.

moving sultrily
to a very cellular song
the blonde sucks me in

  • Failed Haiku 47

Written on 23 January 2020.

writers block . . .
I see a minstrel
and want to paint it black

  • Failed Haiku 47

Written on 23 January 2020.

I miss the train
while listening to
people get ready

  • Failed Haiku 47

Written on 23 January 2020.

a paedophile
lusts after
his younger self

Written on 23 January 2020.

turning over a new leaf
the climate change denier
bites the dust

Written on 23 January 2020.

climate change debate
we dignify the old fart
with silence

Written on 23 January 2020.

facing extinction
fat cats lick
their nether regions

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
hellbent in pursuit
of nightfall

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
an elastic band
to the sun

  • Prune Juice 29

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
fills out my application
to be myself

Prune Juice #29

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
decodes messages hidden
to the naked eye

Written on 23 January 2020.

a sundial pauses
for my shadow's
passing

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
parodies
my carbon footprint

Prune Juice #29
Prune Juice Book of Senryu: Celebrating 10 Years: 2009 – 2019

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
fails to find a life
of its own

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow
masters the art
of camouflage

Written on 23 January 2020.

fiat umbra
my shadow recreates
its sense of self

Written on 23 January 2020.

my shadow reflects
on its life
before there was light

Written on 23 January 2020.

from my pen
an hallucination
of loose ends

Written on 23 January 2020.

moon blossom —
another bull shits
its aha

Written on 23 January 2020.

her lover
breaks through the brushstrokes
of her sullen art

Written on 23 January 2020.

cancer ward
we breathe each breath 
mindfully

Written on 23 January 2020.

cancer ward
the permanent markers 
running low

Written on 21 October 2019.

by late light
the beginnings
of touch

  • A New Resonance 11

Written on 21 October 2019.

moonless nostalgia for the unknown

  • A New Resonance 11

Written on 21 October 2019.

post-literate verse
all the white spaces
fit together

  • A New Resonance 11

Written on 21 October 2019.

a word for hope hollowed of vowels

  • A New Resonance 11

Written on 21 October 2019.

dawn vigil
all the unknowns
melt away

  • Triptych

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