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September 2014

Written on 23 January 2017.

a part across from a godwit’s carbon footprint

Bones 5

Written on 28 August 2015.

crescent moon
light crests over
a snail

Written on 28 August 2015.

crescent moon
another thumbnail sketch
of sad stories

Written on 28 August 2015.

crescent moon
separating facts
from fiction

Written on 28 August 2015.

moonlit lake —
the doppler effect
of black swans

Written on 28 August 2015.

from the dark
from the space it leaves
a  tree begins

Written on 28 August 2015.

no man's land —
haiku mind-seeding
by moonlight

Written on 28 August 2015.

desert spring . . .
some words from my mouth
half-shut

Written on 28 August 2015.

second language
just one second after
a big bang

Written on 28 August 2015.

queueless the fine line here

Written on 28 August 2015.

on reflection
moonset's paucity
of words

Written on 28 August 2015.

graveyard shift —
the past in spectres picking
through haibones

Written on 28 August 2015.

under a cloud
a beekeeper checks
each peony

Written on 28 August 2015.

mid night
all the stars out there 
mid way from the past

Written on 28 August 2015.

inland sea . . .
the sound of a siren
turns my head

Written on 28 August 2015.

the milky way
stretches out its wingspan
of indifference

Written on 28 August 2015.

midnight stroll
beyond the back-chatter
of the universe
 

Written on 28 August 2015.

scented night —
a moth enters the hush
between stars

Written on 28 August 2015.

iambic throb —
the slow black trochee
of life-blood

Written on 28 August 2015.

mist . . .
from tree to tree
an afterthought

Written on 28 August 2015.

death bed vigil . . .
his mind fingers through
beads of sweat

Written on 28 August 2015.

sun shower
a rain drop turns
into wine

Written on 28 August 2015.

with the birds
the words to voice
such silence

Written on 28 August 2015.

sharpening an end to end all war

Written on 28 August 2015.

a haiku
without trying to be
Japanese

Written on 28 August 2015.

theta waves
splash the plimsoll line
of my words

Written on 28 August 2015.

spring storm
my future slows down
for my shadow

Written on 28 August 2015.

first light
the fall from it
all around

Written on 28 August 2015.

a spring rain
agitates the clarity
of its pooling

Written on 28 August 2015.

footfall . . .
the dull thud
of waking

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