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Haiku
wild rose bush crushed between the rocks so carelessly placed and yet there a soul looks out at me
In the lamplight leaf shadows break on the ragged edges of my heart
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I met her at the supermarket this… She told me she works in the schoo… I saw again a little girl nervousl… at the taunting –Tallest girl in g… And I wonder if she’s back there…
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…
the universe opens accepting my homecoming sky races by
Suppose you was 18 years old And never had a single thing In all your life to call yours alo… Except your body and your face? And suppose you went to work
Beneath that secretive smile A strong hot thrust From a sidewalk grate….
white-rimmed waves crawl reluctantly shore ward moody city skyline rebuffs shafts of sunshine cloud confusion
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…
which of our ancestors did it - traded wings for thumbs burdened us with possessions fed us to the uncompromising earth…
how pathetic to be born without wings such gifts should be for womankind, too
little lies, seeds of thyme shallow-rooted, often sewn cover the largest stone yet a tree springs from a single seed
Still they knock at my door And complain About the state of the world Selling fear Like grape Kool Aid
seek the council of wild things in… leaves that turn their silver side… before the rain slender reeds that accept and bend they will sew your words abroad