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Haiku roundup (finger to fabric).

2008-07-01T23:03:43Z

summertime's hot winds bending over the cell phone finger in my ear mentally tracing the outline and deep shadows of a charmed necklace near the garbage can with lettuce and feta cheese abandoned rabbit demolition days the sand castle's we...

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Haiku roundup (eavesdropping to roses).

2008-06-24T17:16:16Z

at dawn, two women laughter rolls from their window birds caught eavesdropping wetlands shimmering singing to one another a train and cricket tall reeds giving way a mother with one duckling so fiercely guarded lightning fast spider peerin...

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Haiku roundup (scuba to zealots).

2008-06-01T03:46:08Z

the salt taste of air your shadow running through me at the scuba cove foghorn on the point creeping through the night window loneliness echoes tugging on his shirt as though it would hold him back the toddler running the hide-and-seek spra...

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Haiku roundup (dream to raindrops).

2008-05-25T03:05:07Z

American dream scrawled on her business card "make million dollar" snake around her neck hoping to score the cool chicks attracts kids instead snarled race day traffic men in pink tutus pass us yet again 1938 cherry condition pickup passe...

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Haiku roundup (retriever to twinkling).

2008-04-07T17:34:26Z

cocks her head and waits for master's witty reply golden retriever boots laced to her knee the bridge of his thought goes out another rises second floor window the outline of a snail's shell such tall hopes and dreams "keep smiling" tee shi...

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Haiku roundup (rain to binding).

2008-03-31T04:00:39Z

lost in thoughts of you raindrops on the windshield come and so this is rain with bright pink laces the hopeful soccer player wears new shoes to bed quickly close your mouth jogging alongside the trail the gnats are hatching opening the boo...

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Haiku roundup (garbanzos to grind).

2008-03-27T23:23:09Z

recipe advice garbanzos and kidney beans "not for company" tattooed and withered somehow she survived this far to sell discount shoes across the tall field exchanging bleats and laughter the fat goat and I ambitious new hire pantomimes hop...

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Haiku roundup (plastic to love).

2008-03-24T19:52:00Z

amidst plastic grass worriedly missing an ear chocolate bunny the software is cracked refactoring the egg back into the thin hen the wave of hiccups crashing deliriously near champagne bubbles such fervent wailing spurs us to investigate ...

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Haiku roundup (echo to summer).

2008-03-17T17:20:19Z

March wind in the reeds if I could but translate you to echo myself still at the bus stop the blind black woman laughing with the broken Vet cherry blossoms fall with a quiet persistence disappearing cars the helicopter trembling against t...

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Haiku roundup (lint to patchwork).

2008-03-04T17:21:52Z

washed with white tissues the sweater works the lint brush testing all patience annoyed by the sound of recommended flossing her headphones louder waiting and watching the natives restless at work for acquisition under the blanket a knitte...

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