we fight the monsters
with little streams
& viburnum plicatum
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8 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
Category: Haiku
it’s cold and rainy outside, too
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7 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
today I watched a bee
generate enough breeze
to move little clumps of dirt
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6 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
all day long in the vice grip
— one word from a friend —
the night air is warm on my skin
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4 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
The Age I Am Now
It’s the nickname for people who rushed west
in search of gold but really fleeing
from the horror that all the days to come
would be like all the days behind,
hoping instead that the rivers ran with possibility
that could be dragged glittering into the sun.
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3 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
last night in the van
where it’s not my choice
(podcasts in the dark)
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2 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
the lights go out
dragging the comedian
down to our level
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1 April 2023
Charlottesville VA
Parked.
“No parking.”
Park!
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21 March 2023
Charlottesville VA
every good pub
is in your town
cardinal in the bushes
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7 March 2023
State College PA
and in the end we
agreed not to agree
snow on the branches
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3 March 2023
State College PA
One night he realized
he hadn’t thought of them
in weeks.
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14 February 2023
State College PA
butterfly in the sky
I can go twice as high
lysergic acid diethylamide
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11 February 2023
State College PA
In Which The Poet Offers Himself A Pithy, Yet No Less Important For All That, Reminder On Why He Spent All Those Years Sitting Quietly
the point of
building the lens
is to use it
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7 February 2023
State College PA
what-ifs
pile like snow
against my door
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6 February 2023
Lemont PA