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Haiku
I’ve known rivers swift currents set free escaping to the brine of the ocean and on to exotic places I’ll never be
SHIPBOARD last night from starless skies a t… stunned and shaken, seeking shelte… from unfamiliar shipboard lights I watched it falter with wings out…
death is absence of thought - zen how can we be afraid of something we cannot live to experience? it’s life that is frightening
it was always said that of all the people on the Island I loved life the best I who had the least but I had all I needed
once the larvae have hatched how long can they survive without… each day I go forceps in hand to count the dead
crumbling mortar and stone among the trees it stands alone morning glories creep upon the flo… the stair has fallen through the d… the music of summer is in the air
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
Me: I love to drive He: it’s too damn dangerous safer to fly, statistics prove it
The taste of winter ice Dug in August from the sawdust Of Conley’s ice house The slap of the screen door On Grammy’s porch
we don’t know who he said he was we came from curiosity and stayed for the inhumanity
I have no family to care for my gr… who doesn’t care where I lay… for fourty years after an argument… which of us was bigger? in the course of our lives we bot…
come sit beneath my branches and read to me from dead poets for I am old all texture and symmetry a conspiracy of cocoons
There is an even-handed justice in… No senility forgiven, but caught a… Blood and flesh, bone and marrow To feed the life of another, And back to the earth that gave it…
Many times, my father, drunk upon… “Spare the rod and spoil the child… Swung his belt and lay the stripes… To cleanse my soul. And I, drunk upon memory and whis…