Haiku 2017 - #247

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whispers
and chases of chickadees ...
my father's the wind

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Haiku 2011 - #211

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songs of young robins ...

my old glories

in old boxes

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Tanka 2010 - #886

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Down in black hollow

down in the flaking leaves

coyotes ...

I remember

the sparrow's bones.

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Bronze soldier ...

leaves clutching

in the autumn rain.

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Autumn's litter ...

what's left

of a kiss.

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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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In memory, September 11, 2001 ...

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Twin leaves trembling

leaves turning leaves burning

leaves falling leaves falling ...

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Kept leaves ...

her paper skin, his paper words

her paper kiss.

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The alder's huge hands ...

I had a grandfather

once.

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That sparrow's

August song instead

speaks of spring.

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Thoughts of sakura

lifted in feathers

of tall summer grass.

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Like the boy

again, he whistles

... winter wind.

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When I was a child ...

the crow calls

and falls away.

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Cobwebs and acorns
a dusty windowsill
... unopened letters.

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In this sunrise
in these eyes something
... of an old September.

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

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Remembering, she waits
just this side
... of mirrors in the rain.

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Hand in hands
she tells him the story
... he once knew.

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Secreted and sealed
in my jar of ghosts
... a towhee's feather.

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