Haiku

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Made for close reading
together or alone -
but always simply enjoyed
.

If haiku is simple

then simple is haiku -

haiku is the good life

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Ignorant gods

hop on tined feet

poking for the worm

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Don't you see

your eyes are inside-out?

says the blind man

.

Can't you hear

that the Song smiles?

says the deaf man

.

Twinkling eyes

looking down -

night-sky's empty crown

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Blinking eyes

looking up -

I'm mirrored in the cup

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Earth's body & meat
we leavened with feet -

to drown in heat?

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Lonely leaves

wind-shuttering

at midnight's hush

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