Bamboo dish
pointing skyward listening
perhaps
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Tag Archives: haiku
haiku and haibun etc.
Poetry snippets: handwritten, from Japan
Post office closed
(again)
You’ll need another
day to know
you are loved
by a lost poet
without a watch
Walking alone while
rain falls
Thinking of you
or rather, us –
Together, umbrella-less
Wisteria mystery
Found me before
I knew i was hidden
We lay in a field
Watching rice in breeze, lazily
A bench picnic, waving as
boats pass a castle, slowly
A tatami room…
With memories of
a poet forgotten to much
of history
He came to be
part of it all
meeting at least
halfway.
Not change or mock –
Somewhat to document.
Today! A letter –
Written as you ate a peach
In last weekend’s sun
10 years later…
10 years later
trees taller
concrete the same
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Assuming aluminum is smelted… / Towns and Trains
Mostly so i can answer Drs when they ask if significant exposure to heavy metals. Not more than others except for Geneva steel labourers. Never worked in an aluminum smelter assuming aluminum is smelted and changing pronunciation in my head, proudly on the fly.
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018
If only this mountain…
If only this mountain
two fingers taller
I’d climb it to the sky
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Sanambin road goes to the airport / Towns and Trains
Sanambin road goes to the airport
Occasionally closed for a motorcade of minor relations of Royals Reviewing, visiting Buddhas, adorned with black-clad citizens, black ribbons to indicate respect and match endless bunting and banners of visage — with camera, saxophone, with monkey cheek, with ribbons, bespectacled always
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018
Found you like a seashell…
Found you like a seashell
picked up
before cutting my toe
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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One of three destinations… / Towns and Trains
The obvious anonymity allows one to wander, unhindered by conversations about homes, jobs and places to go
Nowhere to be but here
Markets of fruits, meats with flies and disposable clothes
Hospitals, shops of pots and pans and endless choices for scooter repairs, stationary by train station Sidewalk stands of noodles, meat on sticks which unify the world, tuk-tuks, rickshaw bikes who don’t want to go far, bank machines and carbon sheet receipts, taxis never seem to know any one of my three destinations: inn, hospital, clinic
Repeat
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018
Coral green, your eyes…
Coral green
your eyes
follow me to sleep
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
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Letter, directed towards a conductor / Towns and Trains
To write a letter
Directed towards a conductor
Sequestered awaiting diagnosis
In a hi-fi bungalow
His son flies so close
To the Borealis
The Inuit might call him
Aurora in another name
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018