Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, and Kigo
November
written November 8, 1990
The morning has come ---
Cold, dreary, and wet.
I'd prefer to stay in bed.
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Soft, Warm, and Mushy
written April 17, 1994
O beautiful for overripe bananas
left in the sun, their sweet stench
too much for passers-by.
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Short-Order Cook
written June 25, 1994
Poems don't happen,
much less spring from nowhere --
but this did.
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Near Atlantic
written December 6, 1997
Trees condense
in the dark
of one below.
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Icicles Hanging from a Birch Branch
written February 17, 2003
Feathers
melt from
the wings they become.
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Supernovae
written May 9, 2003
Supernovae of not even mayflies
melt in the morning, becoming Mercury's moons
in time for their setting.
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The Broom
written November 5, 2003
a new whiskbroom
proves itself right
on a bleeding floor.
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Doubles
written April 7, 2005
Five years mount the springboard,
with one step matching each of them.
Off the steps at twenty,
Forty bends arms and folds legs.
Eighty
swims alone, freezes the pool, turns five.
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Kites' Wings
written March 23, 2008
Kites' wings pull their own strings.
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