A mouse dream

Katsushika Hokusai, Hawk, 1849 (large)

Last night I dreamt my bed
was a mouse’s bed.
This morning a hawk passed overhead,

circling once.
A coincidence?

 

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Bluejays! the same fight

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Bluejays! the same fight
every morning! Why should I write you
another poem?

 

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Two crows shared the same treetop

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I.

Two crows shared the same treetop…
Nope—
it didn’t last.

II.

Don’t they know there’s a war on?
Stupid cows
in their stupid, green, spring pasture.

III.

You need to slow
the fuck down. Only then
will this poem seem long enough.

 

two brown-and-white cows

 

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Frogs (a round)

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Frogs
remain invisible,
even at midday.

How
do frogs
remain invisible? Even

at
midday, how
do frogs remain?

Invisible,
even at
midday–how do,

Frogs?

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[haiku: first fall morning]

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The furnace harumphs —
my old house shivering in
anticipation.

 

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[haiku written in the bus depot]

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The young woman’s shoes
the color of buttercups —
a gray city rain.

 

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Bashō walked fifty miles

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Bashō walked fifty miles–
Came back with one haiku.
How do you think
That story makes me feel?

 

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English Assignment

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Pink cherry blossoms
And the syllables add up:
There’s your damn haiku.

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I cut the fence

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I cut the fence
and let the animals go
hoping they were dangerous enough.

 

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Crow (4)

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Shotgun-boys waited,
sure patience would bring rewards:
Crow just stayed away.

 

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