new year's eve . . .
a caterpillar lingers
over its food
December 2017
frog haiku torn open to suggestion
conclave smoke
rising from a cardinal's
cigarette
stone cold light on a feather
past its peak
Taranaki loses
its last snow
haunting
karaoke bars
a drunken muse
old gargoyle
her eyes give away
what croaks hide
face to face
desolate beaches
laid bare
ill at ease
my eyes continue to roam
my dreaming mind
percussive sun
everybody
must get stoned
the fire
of birdsong
in a day's embers
po marie
I bury my words
in te reo
at the end
of all my wandering
clear cascades
southern star
a procession of monks
through the abbey
solstice dusk
a kitten silences
the cicada
my lineage
weathers into my face
autumn testament
post mortem
the hedonist hits
his dead-end
ta moko
a koru unfurls
though my blood
face to face
with my reflection
on mercy
a mayfly
fasting from the dream
of forever
presidential tweet
all and sundry
pee their pants
feeding off
the sacred mysteries
mistletoe
left alone
the child becomes
a winter sky
a river of life
lies in a bed
of its own making
unfinished with a little
an image fades
beyond belief
into being
lone tree effigy of a former self
in an almost
of the moment
a baby's smile
dead sea scrolls
the accumulation of words
w/o this out
windy shore
my word prints wash away
as I make them
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