Providence, lost
Sunday, Providencegrey like last weekwith my bargain matinee cough syrup nodcandy coated hold onto my thick headnext wave goes to […]
Post'd (cards + letters), Shoebox
Postal wormholes to elsewhere #haiku
Bend paper to findShortest distance between pointsOr apply a stamp {for Amber}
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A Catographer, I Considered (prose poem)
A Cartographer, I Considered Spectacled, heavy on a rosy face, hidden among stacks, drawing inventions of maps – delineating frontiers
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Haiku: Graves & Trains
Rubbing faded kanji From mossy tilted Edo graves Shinkansen shooshes past
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I picked you flowers (painting & poem)
Picked you some flowers while I was out Placed in a vase, slightly chipped Perhaps you and the blooms will
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Elsewhere Scenes, Wander + Wonder
Waiting, not Riding
Waiting for a trainAlone amongst a billionJust to pass by, not to ride No where to goBut to my healing
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Shoebox
Haiku – *unconfidential* kokoro postcard (variations)
Often, a poem comes out fully-formed, fiddling and remixing only dulls the knife, sometimes however, variations are eager to come
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Annotations: Regarding Japanese-inspired Poetry
Consider the words Write them once, only – In a single inky sweep On tactile paper Then add a flower
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Requited
Poem: How Shall We Fill This Vessel? (excerpt for Sheila + Kemp, 10 year)
“How Shall We Fill This Vessel?” (excerpt of poem – written by me – read at Kemp and Sheila’s wedding
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Shoebox
Poem: post office closed (again)
Post office closed (again) You’ll need another day to know you are loved by a lost poet without a watch
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe / occasional haiku, 2004
Download poetry chapbook (pdf): Hotsprings + Stubbed Toe, by Dave Olson, 2004
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Chapbooks, Fanzines & Folios, Stubbed Toe
Folio: January in the Hot Springs / haiku and paint, 1993-5
After arriving in Japan for the first time, i began exploring Japanese poetic forms – realizing that the didactic 5-7-5
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Shoebox
Poem: Earliest Recollections (Lansing, MI, 1973 with tornado)
Lansing Michigan, 1973 eating macaroni & cheese in a damp basement while adults whispered windows shivered radio crackled and i
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