Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010


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March thirtieth:
rupture, no, rapture
of weeds from the cracks.

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Monday, March 29, 2010


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Rains and warm winds ...
the trees
trading winter dreams.

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Run kitty, run -
that shadow's
the better cat.

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Its art
of crying in a mirror
... March rain.

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Maybe
in stacked paper
.... maybe blossoms.

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Sunday, March 28, 2010


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Fly, fly little fly
whose name I can't recall
... and others.

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The orchard bee
busy busy dust to dust
... plum blossoms.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010


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Falling
plum blossoms
... damselfly sipping rain.

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Old crow
calling to the rain
... yes, perhaps later.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010


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The cracking spine
of favorite poems
... winter strains, March rains.

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Child, young mother
old mothers singing
old, old mother songs.

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Circus of spring
popping and bursting
peeling and flying
the names of the new
... names of the dead.

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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Tuesday, March 23, 2010


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Lambs in the street
blackened faces side by side
... run you sillies, hide!

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In silk roses
the spider's web
... thread for thread.

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Bare to the branch
the robin crying
for cherry blossoms.

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Watching her, loving her
like the branches dancing
she's the breeze
spinning spins, but doesn't know
... never sees.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010


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Whispers in the rain
and on and on the gossip
... of treefrogs.

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Catkins of alder
everywhere everywhere
... tails without rats!

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Saturday, March 20, 2010


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Turning from the rain
it burns, it burns us
... yes kitty, yes.

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Six-thirty a.m.
frosty black beetle
melting in the mosses.

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Blinking
with the morning sun, threading
through the arching grasses
is that a giggle
... kitty?

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... thumb and page, thumb and
the waiting room door
page, thumb and page ...

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Winter's dank molds
and black tangles of forest
... bones of a sparrow.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010


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Yep. Cold ain't it? Yep.
Yep. Ain't it cold? Yep.
... frogs of March.

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010


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March moon
hiding from winter rains
and dreamers in rains
calling, falling
and cannot wait.

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Back in black briar
in the morning rain
a winter wren ...
but that's not your name
is it?

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010


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Pausing ...
March winds and moonlight, the mayfly
... pausing.

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Fly crows! Cry!
river of thunder
a morning train
Cry! Fly crows!
... bye crows.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Sunday, March 14, 2010


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Sparrow
you, this winter rain
... stops along the way.

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Saturday, March 13, 2010


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Fiftieth March -
life and lives I can't recall
... but plum blossoms.

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Friday, March 12, 2010


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Pale things, winter things
cracking, swelling, breaking things
... waking things.

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Voice voices
their chittery-chattery
noises noises
drowning the rain
drowning in voices.

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