Older Age, Basho In Mind

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for Nimal

Road gets narrower

eyesight dims,

even signs wave

Basho's ghost

guides with ink,

HERE NOT HERE

Can't ever cross

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What Is Seen

a fly
strolls a realm
just on the other
side of light

only silhouettes
guesses thrills
motion so
slight framed in
window gray

in love with
small things
keep what
is seen where
hides the wind

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Observing Late Afternoon Snow From An Upstairs Window

a white feather boa

between limb crotches

winks through leaves'

gold glitter over

pedestrians below

a sudden flush of heat,

of love, and they don't

know why

isn't love always above us?

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Skipping Stones

for Ruth Stone

prayer beads
stars in hand
rosary of smooth stones
for a throwing child

old man's memory
skips
across pond

quiet shadows

It is I and Thou
oh difficult Lover

O Universe
It is I and Thou

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Scapegoat - Minimus Stuck - Fragment Abramic

...continuously caught
as the ram redundant among
thorns, horn pushed, blood
ignored, to come more itself,
or other, to kindred bodies
entangled, sacrificed by
thorn, first born.

I am caught up in the matter.

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What Is Allowed Lace Of Vision

[the opening line is by John Berryman's]

Childness let's have us honey,
flame intended, names smeared
upon the glass, an accidental
pane, hands touching it delicate
as trespass, what is allowed
lace of vision.

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Babel Soup

for poets

Dawn muse, difficult lover,
come hard through the
chimney trailing pages
and alphabets.

Babel soup for breakfast,
and strong black coffee.

Another wander in the wilderness
preserving the last match.

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Of Asterisk, Lovely Flower

Imagine
this asterisk
which contains an aster
a rose transforming yet again
because it can
because he
Lorca
has willed it obediently into being
letter by letter,
petal by petal
bee kissed by brazen bees
a clutch of stamens
assassin's ink
flowering

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Mimimus Explains The Pluribus Unum Thing

And now come poets each century heavier than
before, heavier than the other few, this new one, too,
only bards, a real few, to bar, board up the big gaps,
O great light gaping torn, oft thee sung,
slung over shoulder, hauled, the burden,
o the load
it is now become.

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Loose Train Hokku-no-renga

For the blind woman
on the train every
journey is inner

She touches my shoulder,
moves one seat ahead
feels the winter collar

metal ring pinned
to its shoulder
smiles when she touches it

dark rings of her eyes
light up momentarily

What universes are in the heads all around me

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