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Chirp
between the sirens and creaking keels,
pines in sunshine and the crescent moon
jagged by clouds Continue reading
Big rain – haibun
Rain like a bastard. Always big weather round here, more than our share. Don’t need radar animations or a weather app: just stick your head out the window, clouds all day escarpment gone and here in this last sunshine all it takes is… Continue reading
Bird box
a bird exists inside this five-foot box
made for beak and wing, Continue reading
Plums
(a reply to William Carlos Williams’ This is just to say)
got your note
(juice-stained). Continue reading
Odysseus at the front bar
This looks so much better on my site – come visit
or view the PDF here…
it should be about something.
like love Continue reading
waiting
the grass has gone blonde (and died), the trees are hanging down and the black earth is cracking open. Continue reading
A panel discussion for the next 10 years…
Landscape with the fall of Icarus
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Because I couldn’t get
to the Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels,
given the flights
and the season Continue reading
Is love still possible?
In some future time
when it’s all breaking down,
when stars fall like arrows,
can I come round?
Peter Frankis writes 