Coo coo coo

The lazy cuckoo
dies after eight thousand calls -
the gods are counting.

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Wild thought

Twin squirrels leapfrog
on the gleditsia branch.
Do frogs play squirrel?

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0247 Tiptoeing into Saywell Country

oh shitty kitty
what a pity

kitty's bitter
you're out of kitty litter

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0248 To a poet I've just read

An ordinary life
can bring you
all the love
in the world
sooner or later

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And Hike You Too Mate

There's nothing that makes
the prissy just so pissy
as 'rules for haiku'.

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Duet for heaven and earth

Cicada at dusk -
do you know how sweetly sing
the stars, with your voice?

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Green Thoughts from a Kyoto Garden in Spring after Closing Time

what would earth be

without rain?

where would rain go

without earth?

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Lifelines

'after the divorce
he resumed drinking
and continued to write
his poetry'

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Spring in Yoshino

The cherry blossoms
heard the temple bell and bowed;
fell gentle as snow.

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To HN: a nonsense rhyme for a troublous time

bind your books
in crocodile skin

and then thereout
won't trouble therein

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