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  • A #Na/GloPoWriMo2025 Reprise of “Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun”

    A #Na/GloPoWriMo2025 Reprise of “Duel of the Masters: a #NaPoWriMo2020 / #GloPoWriMo2020 #haibun”

    The questions of how to begin and what to think are matters for one’s own heart to resolve. Of oneself, for oneself – you must be your own teacher. Sen No Rikyu An ever-twilight, midsummer wood, save for the towering, lakeside Pines and the Cherry blossoms. A meadow in the midst of this floral menagerie,…

  • Divine Tomfoolery

    Divine Tomfoolery

    Azurity a bare oak fills with crows fools winding down their day while the sun sets Quetzalcoatl & Coyote’s Actuality plays at an abandoned Drive-In theater So very proud of their handiwork ancient deities basking in their glory on this April Fool’s Day

  • I, Chicken Parmesan (Encore, 8/20/24)

    I rise from a corpse of poultry. Cold steel flays the fat off of me. Yellow yoke bathes me, before immersion in flour and breadcrumbs completes me. I first face the fire in a vat of boiling oil. Every impurity scourged from me, my texture a golden brown, warm marinara sauce pours upon me. The…

  • A Tripartite Santification

    A Tripartite Santification

    “Blessing!” the cherry tree blossoms “Blessing!” the retiree files “Blessing” the ordinary is

  • #Haiku (4/5/24)

    #Haiku (4/5/24)

    4/5/24: confetti fallen confetti blowing in the breeze cherry blossoms #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • “Thunder…”

    “Thunder…”

    Thunder a complex spider’s web trembles with rain and just like that a flash lights up the sky

  • #Haiku (4/4/24)

    #Haiku (4/4/24)

    4/4/24: slippery remembering “Slippery when wet”… April showers #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

  • Sirening

    Sirening

    The wind cries, wailes, groans. The house shudders. Lightning flashes. & everywhere, pouring rain. I tremble on the couch with each flash, thunder interrupting my reading of Ox Herders and Aquinas. Outside, I cry, wail, groan. I shake the house. I flash across the sky. & everywhere, me, pouring down. Chuangxi dreamed he was a…