a stately building stands beside the river, commanding the eye. but that ancient river remains unimpressed.
Unimpressed [Tanka]
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Seed Spitting Deity [Tanka]
morning offering with a melon wedge; a bas-relief face seems to have bitten a chunk, and is prepared to spit seeds.
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Beyond Sight [Kyōka]
in the mountains, beyond every sightline, a potential top... but - more likely - just more to climb.
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Skyward [Tanka]
i look skyward, and others stop to look. those who wonder why I'm looking up, might wonder why they weren't.
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Golden Spotlight [Tanka]
early morning
rays hit the canopy
and fan out
into gold bands of light:
spotlights with no targets
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Monkey Forest [Free Verse]
in the monkey forest, i think of Sun Wukong & Hanuman as a macaque steals my sunglasses
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Rain & Waves [Tanka]
waves crashing
on a rain-darkened shore
lull me to sleep,
as pelted boatmen
tug their boats inland
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Dragonfly [Kyōka]
the dragonfly is still, and I wonder whether it's dead, and further wonder whether anyone has thought that of me
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Green City [Tanka]
a desert city stretches green between the mountains; do people choose trees, or do trees co-opt humans?
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Line of Blindness [Tanka]
mountains peek from clouds. moments before they'd hid well; i can't help but think about all those times, flying through clouds, blindly
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