April 10, 2025 · 11:25 pm
Compassion
Compassion flowers /
within and then blooms outward /
until it gardens all.
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April 3, 2025 · 11:55 pm
Wind
Wind ripples the flag, /
slapping at the stars and stripes, /
tattering the dreams.
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March 27, 2025 · 11:32 pm
Schrödinger declined
Schrödinger declined. /
I am not dead or alive. /
I am the box.
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March 13, 2025 · 11:58 pm
Age
Age is a crap shoot. /
Some days, the royal flush. /
Other days, flushed out.
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February 27, 2025 · 11:16 pm
Wit
Wit is like a screw: /
biting enough to grab hold, /
tight enough to stay.
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February 13, 2025 · 6:51 pm
Rain
The rain never ends. /
Even when it stops outside /
the drops weep inside.
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February 6, 2025 · 11:27 pm
New hope
February jonquils, /
early yellow among brown, /
herald spring’s new hope.
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January 30, 2025 · 11:47 pm
Practice
Crows chorus close.
Hawk holds to catalpa branch.
Pursuit and patience.
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January 23, 2025 · 11:38 pm
Tableau
Three years on, /
old leaves frozen in ice, /
memories linger.
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January 9, 2025 · 11:28 pm
Tea kettle
Tea kettle on ice, /
hot water cracks winter’s glass, /
restores disorder.
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