Senryu 2011 - #73

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another train, the cold track

the thin pane, a thin dream

and home

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Half moon

well, there would be

... half way home.

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Desert drums
deserted miles
ta-thump ta-thump ta-thump ...

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No people
no houses
down the road road road ...

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Moon-Lantern-Moth #11

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Traveler's moon
a distant lantern
... the stowaway moth.

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Next fork

of the Drift-On Byway

... yep, I mean to.

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The traveller
too plain to wish
... for the end of rains.

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Comes now, summer
for dreaming and dreamers streaming
away, away ...

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Far this scratched road
a spare man choosing
... those unchosen ends.

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Traces
of a journey -
absent grains of place.

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Night rain -
a traveler returns
the crow's chuckle.

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Urgencies
of distant running shapes
melt into trees and a tired road.

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Beginnings and endings
edges of place -
and none of journey.

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Fades a traveler
to stain far mist and snow -
another path, another tale.

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Pale man
thin coat -
long ... dim the chill road.

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