Haiku 2021 - #530

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snow gusts ...

my fear

of the wind

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Haiku 2011 - #35

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winter seize ...

the jay clutched in bare quince

but winter sees

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Haiku 2010 - #925

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First jay

slinking into bramble ...

no crows yet, silly.

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Senryu 2010 - #889

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First dream in days ...

she says

the things I fear.

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One

high in the aspen

waits more tender wind.

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Of things painful:

the child laughing on a high branch

... only watching.

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Silly jay, your colors

can only run away!

... cold summer rain.

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... the rain, little mouse

it calls, it calls little mouse

come out to the rain ...

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Fly crows! Cry!

river of thunder

a morning train

Cry! Fly crows!

... bye crows.

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Gurgling

in her sleep

... not mine.

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There, just there, just now

in the shadowed rain, were eyes

I'd swear ... black fingers!

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Down

in the crawlspace

... chewing.

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Shh, someone ... no

no one in the attic

no one shifting ... again.

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Mask in the street

somewhere close

... someone unafraid.

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Autumn desert
not of my making
... so why my shaking?

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Hiding
hiding in her hair
... and the secrets there.

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A black
choking and restless
... someone's lost this night.

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They's a cold mist
on up 'n over this hill
... a crawlin' in.

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Things to remember:
voices of trees unafraid
... moments like that.

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Of crows
I can't dismiss
... they fear none of this.

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