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August 7, 2004

it’s just a game, grasshopper

Filed under: pre-06-2006 — David Giacalone @ 11:19 am












seesaw


A gray dawn —

last night’s poker cards

facedown on the table

 

 

 

Cool breeze scented with mint —

a grasshopper poised

in the twilit stillness

 



by Rebecca Lilly, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-        

Language Haiku  (Jim Kacian, Dee Evetts, eds., Red Moon Press, 2001)

credits: “a gray dawn” from Modern Haiku XXXII: 1; “cool breeze” from Modern Haiku XXXI:1

 









flawless hosta  

between finger and thumb —

making sure it’s real

                                             [Aug. 7, 2004]

 


coin flip  one-breath pundit  





 

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