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May 2015

Written on 01 June 2015.

autumn ends —
my image stripped back
to bare bones

Written on 01 June 2015.

out of sleep
erasures of light
redefine it

Written on 01 June 2015.

light
moments before
alit

Written on 29 May 2015.

undergrowth —
a condom wrapper spent 
among the leaves

Written on 29 May 2015.

mist swans
weave through the ritual
of evening

Written on 28 May 2015.

fog of war droning on and on

Written on 26 May 2015.

by moonlight
the landscape the woman
becoming 

Written on 26 May 2015.

first frost . . .
rigor mortis creeps
along the lawn
  • Created on 26 May 2015.

Written on 26 May 2015.

set horizontal the s....u....n stretches out along one line

Written on 26 May 2015.

first frost . . .
whiteness clings on
in the shade

28/05/2015

Written on 25 May 2015.

When Pentecost day came round
 
within fire
the tongue-tied voice
of the pine

Written on 24 May 2015.

look to the clouds!
there is an earthquake
in the air
 
Not really a haiku, more a presentiment I had for the coming week.

Written on 23 May 2015.

head shot
my personal pronouns
shedding capitals

Written on 23 May 2015.

alone at last at a dead stop .

Written on 23 May 2015.

keeping in touch our mitochondrial Eve

Written on 23 May 2015.

evening waves —
I remember her touch
silent as a comet

Written on 23 May 2015.

with wide eyes
words as spare as
cave paintings

Written on 23 May 2015.

chance of words in nocturnal reverie

Written on 23 May 2015.

late prayer —
ink blot clouds astride
the white

Written on 21 May 2015.

Dad: 11 May 1914 - 7 March 1991
Mum: 16 April 1920 - 27 July 2009
 
here to there --
filling the dashes
with my self

 

 

 

Written on 20 May 2015.

yesterday's issnues . . .
onan disseminating
deformination

Written on 20 May 2015.

man-malled
muzak oozes into
the marble

Written on 20 May 2015.

back-chatter —
time to go jump
in the lake

Written on 20 May 2015.

pft! spring!
I gorge myself
on cherries

Written on 20 May 2015.

without light
let there be
nothing but

Written on 20 May 2015.

footnotes 
to a drama 
without words

Written on 20 May 2015.

pissed on
the last food trail
of some ants

Written on 20 May 2015.

grandfather clock!
what on earth
keeps it ticking?

Written on 20 May 2015.

autumn funk
I don't want his damn'd mower
anyway

Written on 20 May 2015.

leaf-loud breeze
in the otherness
of light

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