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Posted on July 4, 2019December 11, 2025

I Saw Three Leaves

Whither, whence, did the rolling wind take up those leaves?

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Posted on July 2, 2019

Again.

Somewhere. Somewhen.

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Posted on July 2, 2019July 2, 2019

A Haiku And Another Haiku Shortly After The First Haiku

Three, two, one.

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Posted on July 1, 2019

Tanka, With A Rhyming Couplet

The city is mapped.

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Posted on June 30, 2019

Of The World; Of Animals

A code of arrationality and potent instinct.

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Posted on June 28, 2019

Three Haiku & A Sentence

Be ‘tween two unknowns.

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Posted on June 27, 2019

Eternally The Daytime-Dream Alight In My Mind’s Eye

Everalways all together.

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Posted on June 26, 2019

A Mere Suspended Coffee

There, but for the purest chance, go I.

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Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

Poems At The Place Between Commitments

To a-waiting ideas, then, return.

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Posted on June 22, 2019June 22, 2019

Against A Tree In Queen Square

A new day begins.

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Posted on June 20, 2019

Clarinet In B-flat

Nexus, beyond ever-shrinking waters.

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Posted on June 17, 2019

Hai(tea-)ku

African/Hungarian/English.

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Posted on June 12, 2019

Sonnet -18

You are e’en clearer; by more stars alight.

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Posted on June 6, 2019

Rhyming Couplets

A rhythm-only song composer who’d not cottoned on.

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Posted on June 6, 2019

Through Street & Square

How distantly it spans.

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