Haiku 2011 - #1

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sparrow

fending in the frost ...

no promises

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Senryu 2010 - #936

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even in cold morning's breath

a face to forget

remembered

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... those days

in the back, underneath

in the boxes ...

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Polaroid

of that first day

... and the fade.

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Bones ...

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A taped box

best unnamed, unsent

best left to folds, to creases

unmended and left

... a taped box.

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Things that cut:

forgetting a lover's face

... remembering.

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With the rain

and tired pieces

... petals.

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Fallen petals

and unused goodbyes

... plum blossoms.

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... and I

pretend snow

and I pretend playing
pretend games

we never ...

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Black, black crow

you and I

should forget.

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No fade

these shadows in the rain

... no trade.

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Feel wind, feel

peel this memory, peel

... friend wind, heal wind, heal.

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... and here, my love

I've winter enough

for us both.

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Startled from

a bitter dream, bitter still

... a bitter pill.

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Fresh snow, a sooted window

the wrong words

... another page.

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Box of old letters

a remembered promise

... unhealed pages.

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Walking the past
this night, this autumn fog
... I won't remember.

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Old barings, old love
coming and going
... coming and going.

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Tones of silence:
an open wound
... briefly forgotten.

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Scrapings of sun
across an overpainted door
... to cold bridges.

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