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Seven Haiku for Sad and Scary Times

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The Cheshire grinning/ moon cups itself to capture/ Venus should she fall.

Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, i - xvi

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the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.

Postcard

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A tiny story, 55 words, just enough to fit on a . . .

from Tsalmaveth

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Anastomose my veins to / yours so we may / share // a dream pooled between us

Moon collar

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I don't think dogs like to die with the pack. The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,

The Angel Closes the Rain

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I may have gone A little soft in the brain But I swear I still see it The angel closes the rain Even God has to refrain From causing us pain When the angel closes the rain So the angel closes the rain At the end of time The angel mus

Micromanaged Truth

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Let your father stay through that dinner when his mistress needed him, while your mother was on the verge.

Crooning

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It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.

Fear the Future: 25 Brief Tales in Various Keys of Woe, Fear, and Loathing

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The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.

Cattle Crossing

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"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."

juvenile haiku

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leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.

Thumbing For a Ride

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Here comes my speed dealer he's riding shotgun in the open

Feb 8

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Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.

Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous

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Liz spied the box of Kleenex right away. She sat down at the chair closest to the Kleenex.

Lover's Spat

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“You haven’t been listening, have you.”

The Next Landscape

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The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…

The oranges are dreaming

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The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.

Parts

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Trigger warning: casualties of war.

Things You Should Know, By Heart, If You Must

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The light is always on in reality The Gelatinous Mass is not something made up By the Catholic Church And even though a small deer may have come to the side of the road once To lick the salt from your wounds There will definitely be cheap fish

Feb 5

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He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.

A Good Man Is Hard To Find. But What About A Good Dog?

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I recently discovered that the man I'd loved and trusted for twenty years had a secret girlfriend on the side for the past decade. We've parted ways and I'm trying to go on with my life. At about the same time, my friend Judy lost her beloved elderly dog after…

Guinness for Iron

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My sister / craves raisons

A Monologue About Skyscrapers

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Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.

Robin Eggs

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"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."

Feb 4

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Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.

Marcel Unchained

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Street mime in white face and white gloves, trapped in invisible box. Tip jar empty. Marcel's solo-dancing the tango now, teeth clenching ephemeral rose. Passersby pass him by.

Cats

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Steve lowers himself onto a lounge chair and lets out a long, overdue sigh. Cliff and Jim, the frickin’ and frackin’ of the built-in pool industry, are making a Burger Chef run while the cement sets.

Cremains

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I need a different storage solution

Feb 1

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On our wedding day he carried all of the furniture out of our small bedroom, created a sanctuary.

Texas Spleen

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Can we survive our Y chromosome?