madonna and child
all the finest brushstrokes
perfected in smoke
Haiku Notebook 2021
sibilant fields
our lips slip into
wordlessness
NOON 20
rock of ages—
a snail anchors itself
within time
in sleep
my interior monologue
breaks down
nine eleven . . .
time unravels the heart
of our darkness
cherry blossoms—
not their essence but
a treachery of words
only yesterday
another hundred-year flood
to be recorded
today's tomorrow
is becoming a transparent
doppelgänger
our night terror
a plasticine crow
peddling footprints
a mirror bridge
suspended in disbelief
between our eyes
my forgetfulness—
I watch it meandering
over my to-do list
an unnamed plant's
unmitigated reality
blinds my blind spot
in drone vision
this little bit of child
a glimpse of conquest
here and now
my argument with myself ends
in threaded raindrops
down hearted blues
her malady hounds her
down to her grave
behold it
desiccated limbs
in full bloom
fogged in
do I see a city
or my origins?
the gull's afterimage
swallowed
hook line and sinker
muddied directions
I lurch into the frog-spawn
of a blind man's ditch
wolf hour
nightclubbers slinking home
along empty streets
poems left-lettered with back-spaces
dawn raids
the moon shining on
an overstayer
endless night
the moon illuminates
a blank page
inner silence
the entire forest
evergreen
under the weather
a smiling mountain
cries me a river
if a mirror as if recursive then into a mirror image
bïnärÿ stärs
the umlaut of
a forked tongue
wedding rings
within one another
the other
when my soul speaks
the whisper of a breeze
after its passing
a future inconceivable from the back seat
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