Haiku 2011 - #119

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snows to ev'ning blue ...

a towhee shards

from shadow

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Sunrise ...

the spider clings

to the melting shade.

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Winter sunrise

breaking not breaking

... brittle forest.

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Sapped summer trees
at last, standing still
... for rains.

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Rain
and the rusted nail
... with only stories.

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Thinning bones
thinning heart, thinning mind
... thinning days.

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Cries, Oh she cries
but the little grosbeak
... can't pierce the rains.

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Morning's gay spillings
urgings too plenty
... for sleepy bones.

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Must this storm
must June whisper so loudly
... to cottonwoods?

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Feral night let out
slinking about and sinking
... into porous men.

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Old aches rebut
stepping kindly
... over dead leaves.

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A list
of tragic things:
... things that flutter.

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She comes play
but never game
... heart far more than blood.

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She ripens pale
in moon silver, tucked
... in lilies.

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(Inspired by Laura Swift at Flickr)

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Openings of moment -
then once more
to spare and shutter.

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She tender loves
tender dreams -
she tenders life.

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Far too slight
for the grand Here -
here ... and no more.

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Sad must in a smile -
glad must
in the fatal mile.

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The pain of exhale
into the fragile hang
of twilight.

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Thumb and finger
the frail silk of first grass -
I'd forgotten ...

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