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Haiku for Today’s Requiescat

Sun shows up our pain,
life goes on now when she ends,
if only bells tolled

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Soarin’

nowadays I can practically 
will it to happen

incredulous you
imbecile you
unstable untenable
you impenetrable
...once upon a time
you

no love
nowhere

the dark spot

hold on 
commence full glide

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And…

I told her the popcorn would come in handy
and indeed it saved her life

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Sweet Abetting

sometimes I forget what day it is
and whether I am awaiting your return 
from work or a train or your errand downtown
some weekend and who I might be
while in waiting
I write a song so beautiful I cry 
so that I cannot sing it

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oddly
this has made us
all holy

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The Transom

my grandfather's shed was a chicken coop
though he never kept any chickens there
with gravel floor and bees
right over the door 
which made leaving hard
a large rock-hive
holed and teeming
built in the studded eave
outside the coop 
grandpa smoking 
L&Ms burning leaves
at night when the air is cool

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By The Light Of Lanterns

the shadows of stamped-brass
replicas of birds shone dazzlingly
on the mesh of porch screen
it's morning some Tuesday in time
with such fine Monday preceding
today when cold air-sun is the order
of the day: today I expel newfound rhythm
less random inhalation now I exhale, 
find the time 

not all can be neither

my memories remain 
a weathered knot I tie loosely about 
my heathered heart, my ear alert to any call
to come love 

the best is yet to come, Love

my eyes peeled
nay, pealed - really ringing!
whenever I see

to say all 
that soft lips would otherwise
touch upon lightly 
about gentle flutter
golden gutter-birds 
at play 

astray
shadows astride
a fine meshed line

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The Visit

My eyes as they are
I now prefer to stay
overnight and leave
in the beautiful
breaking sun 
of new day

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I want only good things to happen for you
and when those don't I feel really bad
so I bear the difference 

Chagall 2020

Hon’…huh?

despite appearances
all is exactly as it seems

staid and stale
even while nascent

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