jagged silver stripes shine in the flooded jungle at sunset
Sunset Waters [Haiku]
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Flood [Haiku]
the river sprawls, overrunning its banks: forest, now bayou
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Monkey-in-Training [Haiku]
baby monkey practices solo branch-work low to the ground
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Ever Conspicuous [Haiku]
even in tall grass, the peacock stands out; its neck metal blue
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Strut [Haiku]
amorous pigeon makes a mick jagger dance, and he scores!
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Possibilities [Free Verse]
Possibility. That which is not, but could be: in the future, or in a world as feasible as our own. (perhaps more so?) When is a possibility a reality? It may not be a reality unless - and until - it comes to be, and, yet, might be a basis of reality, decisions are made on assumptions that a possibility has high probability of becoming reality. I see kids playing and feel the expanding field of possibility, and wonder when it starts to shrink, to collapse? When & why does possibility die?
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The Palace that Was [Senryū]
crumbling ruins sit amid the pasturelands. that's progress.
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Butterfly Dogfight [Haiku]
the butterfly jinks. its pursuer holds the line. i blink; they're gone.
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Elephantine Baobab [Free Verse]
It's called Hatiyan-ka-Jhad because it looks like a huddled herd of elephants -- not only in its corpulence but also with its rough, gray skin. So rotund at its base that it's hard to figure how its slowly slimming upward taper can come to twiggy ends, and not be a mile tall. The branches are overly muscular, like a bodybuilder who got carried away, moving from strong and vigorous into the domain of science fiction mishap. It has its own mythology -- multiple creation tales about how its seed got from Madagascar to the middle of India half a millennium ago: tales of fakirs and royal envoys. It's even been said that the Forty Thieves, the ones who tormented Ali Baba, used its hollow as their cache cave. But it refuses to respond to "Open Sesame" -- so I guess we'll never know.
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Tree of a Thousand Twigs [Free Verse]
When monsoon rains soaked the soil, that old tree toppled. They cut it out of the roadway, & I went out to count its rings, but found it not with hundreds of rings, but hundreds of trunks -- many no more than twigs. What a mighty tree a pile of twigs pressed together can make, & now it's gone.
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