sunlight shines low, half-hatching the forest floor with autumn shadows; i walk amid columns, listening for absent birds
Walk in the Woods [Tanka]
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Cloud Tricks [Tanka]
thin clouds drift in, showing their black bellies, hiding blue skies like a young boy doing his first magic trick
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Road Flock [Tanka]
cowbells clang, the bleating flock trots up a dusty road; the rising dust plume seen before the goats
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The Murder [Kyoka]
a murder of crows
congregates on the concrete,
and I feel angst.
sure, I’m smarter than a crow…
but smarter than the murder?
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Gravity-free Tree [Tanka]
growing upward, the tree turns ninety degrees, reaching sideways three times its height - i jump to check gravity
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River Meets Sea [Tanka]
wide mouth river, its chocolate-colored waters smashed by breakers / the battle is ceaseless; no winner is declared
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Grazing Horse Tanka
grazing horses approach a cliff: not watching where they are going, but knowing where they are
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Dragon Spine [Tanka]
riding the ridge, the dragon-spine wall stretches beyond sight -- some say it ends there; some say it never ends
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Seed of Ambition [Tanka]
over the river, a seed pod twirls toward the creeping waters, and thus a lazy seed will hitch a thousand miles
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Sky Burial [Tanka]
circling raptors sweep down onto the platform; they peck and tear; when sun-bleached bones remain, nature's hard work begins
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