Haiku 2011 - #198

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an hour or two ...

at last

the poplar's shadow

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Watching the gecko

watching the ant

crawling away.

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Oh! Shut up, crow!

Get out of the rain, crow!

... move over, crow.

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Midnight rain -

the slug and I

... no hurry.

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Things patient:
hawk watching in a tree
... the tree.

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Astonishing unfold -
poor folly
of the cling.

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A pitted stone -
her dreams, her wishes
freed at last.

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My fevered quick -
the settle and thick
the soak, the stick of trees.

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Shh ... trees whisper
smitten with chorus snared
in the long standing pauses.

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Burn our bloods, burn
boil our bloods, boil -
hush meek meeker bloods, hush.

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365 Tao Day 011 "Healing":

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Vicodin and color swatches
lip-biting and pristine crutches
bridal magazines and growing lists.

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365 Tao Day 008 "Work":

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Certain of moth stupidities
a reclusive spider
waits ... and dreams.

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