a bouquet
of my least favorite flowers
first love

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bottle rockets #26

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Photograph by Ian Britton

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Sunday service
between hymns
tuning out

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Prune Juice 7

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air guitar —
nothing for sale at
the empty mall

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empty mall –
the same voices
always inaudible

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after the bomb
two swallows fledge
in the empty mall

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every
face
in
the
empty mall

moon rocks

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the empty mall
promises nothing
for everyone

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zombies speculate
about their origins
in the empty mall

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every storefront
in the empty mall —
a mouth

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empty mall –
I take the pills
I promised to take

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everyone arriving
at the empty mall
gets an empty balloon

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further into
the empty mall
than I ever meant to go

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a glass case
with a heartbeat
at the empty mall

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sunrise
burns a hole in the wall –
empty mall

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empty mall
so many
molecules

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the phases of the moon
turn sour
I walk on tiptoe
with your memory
through the empty mall

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a cloud of radiation
dissipates –
empty mall

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empty mall —
a herd of nameless animals
in housewares

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empty mall —
having our souls inspected
in the fountain

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the general shouts his name
to the crowd
in the empty mall

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the empty mall
is it me here
or another girl
with burning hair

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the stars I see
and the stars
themselves
your voice a few feet away
in the darkness
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American Tanka 20: A Few Feet Away

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Photo: www.martin-liebermann.de

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west wind
the rain arrives
without you

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Tinywords, 11/23/2011

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blackbirds on the moon…
the frustration
of wings

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January 2012 Moon Viewing Party, Haiku Bandit Society

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at the heart
of the garden maze
a staked lily

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HaigaOnline 12.2

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artwork by Chrysti

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a clutch of duck eggs
the corner of the backyard
where we bury things

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A Hundred Gourds 1.1

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first dream of the year
everything forgotten
before it begins

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More about the kigo “First dream of the year” at Gabi Greve’s World Kigo Database

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