Author: cfblack
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Haiku backyard brunch
Aesop’s crow squabbles on fence with cooped up chickens about table scraps 5-24-24
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afternoon haiku
bright sun climbs tree trunk shadows crawl across the ground going nowhere fast 5-22-24
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recycling day
Sit in a lawn chair read Keats wait for the city truck to haul away trash we call recycling. Plaintive bird calls three times from the bush. No reply. 5-20-24
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yellow haiku
swaying in the breeze dandelion on spindly stem dancing at my feet 5-20-24
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rain drips from trees drums dry brown leaves snare rattles downspouts birds sing call and response highway drones bass line sit silent and listen 5-19-24
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Harrison Butker
or The Somnambulant Man in the middle of the night (comatose for decades) View Post he woke up struggled to feed himself left his dirty underwear on the bathroom floor everyone and everything had gone on without him his kids had grown up his wife had grown independent his mother had died while inside he…
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shadow play
From my seat in the shade I watch a leafy shadow sway Back and forth in a patch of light It wavers high overhead Oblivious to it’s shadow dance And oblivious of me 5-16-24
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domestic prozac
Traumatized She would go out alone To the laundromat And watched clothes in the dryer For hours Tumble over one another Marveling That no one got hurt 5-16-24
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Convulsive Electric Blues
Hauntings of a Conscientious Objector: This morning, I remembered how, when the surgery rooms were slow, I’d sometimes assist in the psych ward and you recognized me that day, when I walked in to help in the electro-shock therapy room. Confused, I blurted out, “What are you doing here?” You said your parents kidnapped you…
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lazy day haiku
weet, weet, bo weet, weet woods drip liquid red bird calls I inhale the morning 5-10-24
