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Haiku
she watches him as if the fault were in her eyes poor shorn Sampson withered hands grip the canes that barely hold the frail reflect…
crickets and brittle leaves empty seed pods scurrying in the heavy scent of autumn
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
(Based on the fact that 95% of household dust is our own skin cel… flakes of me circling in the sunli… bits of you lying on the bureau gather them in a beaker
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
last night the winter world transformed to summer’s sphere fireflies in the night their aimless paths alight
wind tangled trees coiling across a yellow moon spiraling leaves surf-curled dunes
the darkening hills a triumvirate of crows in the glowing gloom
looking at the world through drops of counterfeit lace on the window pane
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
A man sits reading under a “SIZ… He does not look sizzling hot He looks quite ordinary in fact Perhaps feeling me watching him… (Not noticing the sign because it…
sunlight through the clouds in a ring of bright water loons fish two by two
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed