Memento: Rod H. Ash, Grave + Poem, 2017
On my birthday August 16, 2017, I found myself in Provo, Utah sleeping in yet another bed in which someone […]
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Kinfolk + Pals
Kinfolk + Pals, Scrapbooks + Journals
Memento: India scrapbook page & poem (RIP Mom), 2016
I was in India when my dear Mother died, I rushed back via various flights to join with my brothers
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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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Portraits of the Artiste
#daveo50 ~ 2001 (shapeshifting) + bargain matinée nod #poem
Just shapeshifting various identities like a global dude of clandestine intrigue and espionage of happenstance / 2001 #PossiblyWorldsWorstSpy {encoded /
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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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Vancouver Grey
Observations… on a Rainy Morning
Thick pineapple rain whippingwinds twisting leavesand homeless blanketswet while walking pastyellow in fleeting glancesholding breath for quarantinepeeking though humid windows
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Shoebox
Former Child Soldiers #poem
The former child soldiers Are now working in PR Trying to convince foreigners To come here anytime (Sri Lanka, 2017)
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Requited
Present So Golden #poem
From the heart, spontaneous, albeit poorly typed (typer has a hiccup #excuse)… result is a slice of rhyme-y romantic-ish poetry
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Shoebox
All of the words at once…
No need to fit in a word Said all of them, all at once One stream or ocean Of (un)consciousness
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Shoebox
Sleep only to sleep #poem
I sleep only to sleep Dream when awake So recollection improves Offers driftwood to aid the elusive float Regardless, always
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Museum Exhibit: Kobayashi Issa (haiku master), museum and grave in Shinano, Nagano
In May 2019, Ryoko and I wandered around Japan on a shinkonryoko (honeymoon) with the aims of riding various trains,
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