in pajamas (senryu)

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in pajamas
mixing with friends
online

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Moonset November 2007

the dogwood (tanka)

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tall and straight now
i wish you could see
the dogwood you planted
before it’s shadow bends
in the winter wind

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December 2007
modern english tanka volume2 number

in the shallows (tanka)

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in the shallows
where once we danced
tiny shells jostle
murmuring of cold
and distance

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December 2007
modern english tanka volume2 number 2

of purple (tanka)

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the taste of purple
in a grape explodes
at dawn
i go from waiting to not
loving you

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December 2007
modern english tanka volume2 number 2

the red remains (tanka)

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sunning himself
a blackbird on a sheep’s back
in tall wheat grass
the red remains
of an old plough

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December 2007
modern english tanka volume2 number 2

sorting through (tanka)

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sorting through things—
your promise to return
and forget-me-nots
harder to discard
than your photos

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Modern English Tanka January & November 2007
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2007a/contents.html

nothing of you (tanka)

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nothing of you
but pressed flowers
and footprints—
violets soon will fill
these depressions

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Modern English Tanka  November 2007
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2007a/contents.html

forget-me-nots (tanka)

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under leafless boughs
forget-me-nots self seed
with vigour
after all this time
do i still cross your mind ?
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Modern English Tanka November 2007
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2007a/contents.html

among my things (tanka)

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among my things
in the bottom of a drawer
your camera
and a dried out rose
whose story i forget

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Modern English Tanka November 2007
http://www.modernenglishtanka.com/digital/2007a/contents.html

heatwave (haiku)

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heatwave ~
red rose blooms
beside sparrow bones
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MOONSET June 2007 - spring summer issue of the newspaper