Tag: photo
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Another Insomnial Evening: my latest @ImageCurve #haibun
We lie down at 11:00 in the evening. My feet, legs, elbows feel twisted and itchy. And the sheet feels like a burial shroud. A flood of thoughts and images arise, a torrent from nowhere. Meanwhile, the darkness presses in. But sleep doesn’t come with it. Not until after five, as the rising light of…
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In Memoriam (9/11/19): an updated #haibun.
I can almost forget. Almost, but never. The impact of the second plane. The plumes of black smoke. The bodies falling through the sunny sky. The rumble. The towers’ collapse. The enveloping white cloud filled with asbestos and powdery debris. Later, the candle memorials. The photograph collages of loved ones. The newscaster’s voice breaking up.…
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Desperate Times: a #quadrille #haibun
The commute begins. Cruising 65-70 miles-per-hour, I pass two exits. Then tail-lights appear. Stop-and-go traffic crawls. Pressure mounts. Cruising speed across the bridge. Then a parkway, with more bumper-to-bumper traffic. Pressure reaches critical. parking space making it to the bathroom in the nick of time for dVerse Poets’ Quadrille #87 (pubtended by De Jackson). The…
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#SilentSunday (9/8/19)
A rest from #haiku See you tomorrow!
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Contrasting Positions: My latest .@ImageCurve #haibun
My steps up the blacktop walkway from the lower parking lot sound louder and louder. The off-white, windowed, one-story hallway ahead grows. My heart beats faster with each step. A knot in my throat, like an invisible hand choking me, tightens. By the time I reach the door, I have breathed so many short breaths…
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This Deep Breath
Another summer, gone in the blink of an eye. Another September, whose arrival signals the beginning of the next school year. The red rocks of Sedona have become the fleeting images of memory and the still photos in the cloud. The hoodoos of Bryce, the overarching granite of Zion and Yosemite, the ever-present San Franscisco…
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#SilentSunday (9/1/19)
A rest from #haiku) See you tomorrow!
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“Summer wind…” a #tanka (8/31/19): California Vacation ’19 Notes 5 (Day 6)
Summer wind along the height of sentinel dome before walking among Mariposa Grove Sequoias #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
