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Posted on Nov 30, 2021

Perhaps

Ends; begins. Writ; collected.

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Posted on Jul 27, 2021

On King Street

The Trow’s resuscitated – see the blackwhite gable draped along in hanging baskets.

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Posted on Jul 13, 2021

Permanence Obscene

Where once I was I am no more – no longer does that me exist.

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Posted on Jul 10, 2021

Kanagawa

Their lines stretch finite.

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Posted on Apr 27, 2021

Something Beside Remains

Your essence, earnestly put forth unto impermanence to weather storms of whetherwhims.

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Posted on Apr 16, 2021

A Week Ago Today, I Travelled Through

I switch from now to then; from then to now.

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Posted on Mar 19, 2021Mar 19, 2021

Ink Not Spilled

Reincarnate, they live as long as us.

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Posted on Feb 12, 2021Feb 12, 2021

River-Light Deepens; Lingers

Dusk deepens.

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Posted on Jan 2, 2021

A Tanka After Midnight

Of ink; of thought.

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Posted on Dec 21, 2020

A Rainy-Bus-Day Senryu

The time that passed.

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Posted on Nov 19, 2020

Next’s The Beginning

Notebook completed; page un-blanked; th’caress of wind-soothed heat.

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Posted on Nov 10, 2020

たんかのいま

私はいくます; いくました.

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Posted on Sep 13, 2020

Sunrise By The Banks Of A River

In age-long decades past rises the gilt Zimbabwe sun, the gutt’ral summons resonating – roaring – deep.

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Posted on Sep 10, 2020

Signing Off

Coffee stains.

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Posted on May 4, 2020

Tanka #(? + One)

Did it?

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