Haiku
edited by Kala Ramesh
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hailstones bounce
in the shallow rock pool
spring sonata
as the crow flies
around the curve
of a river
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charred earth
a dragon-shaped cloud
breathes smoke
clouds scrape the mountain raven’s cry
sunset over the marsh ...
roseate spoonbills
draw down the sky
burrowing fiddler crabs
we walk the beach
without speaking
passing the oolong
our fingers touch
leaf flush
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watery footprint
one by one the stars
wink back
too much plum wine
the moonlit path home
shines with dew
twenty-eighth-floor terrace
bones of bamboo
clatter
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wheelchair
a sea lily
in her hair
first swallows
looking at the pictures
of your birth
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lily pads patching a hole in the clouds
mown grass
a clump of poppies reddens
the crickets' song
lockdown
opening the window
to let his soul out
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between dark clouds
and pastel skies
eagle wings
bridge the gap
denied entry by skin
morning light
crosses the border
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an attacking goose
drives an owl into retreat
election day
Christmas lights
still up in February:
small mercy in a hard year
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almost sunset a parasailer with a rainbow
ash-throated flycatcher the pale-yellow hitch in its song
eyebrow piercing the hushed whispers of strangers
five-decade rosary each morning blackbird a prayer
her sparring gloves
the sudden pop
of a pink peony
how the light catches leaves song sparrow song
poems on the cover a stamped heart
shifting dunes
no need to pedal
with a tailwind
train station goodbye the pain between them
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children's laughter—
the woodpecker spirals
up the pine tree
she tells me the truth—
every night the moon
a little further away
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full clothesline
in the summer wind
a few pins let go
trees reaching over the trail echoes of boyhood
abandoned state road
wide open—
wild blackberries
train tracks
rusting
into summer’s horizon
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cicada moon
time comes to
a standstill
full house
you never know
when he's bluffing
rabbit fur
on a barbwire fence
morning frost
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rhubarb crowns -
a dessert
fit for kings
sunshine
in the toddler’s hand
a daffodil
fields of stubble -
after harvest
I recall dad’s hugs
floating candle
in the bowl
a new moon
knowledge ravaged
by dementia
empty bookshelves
refugee
in a bulging rucksack
her angora rabbit
rotting teeth
a row of condemned
tombstones