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ebb tide the heron steps into twilight
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daybreak . . . a migratory bird's feather on the path
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love: a kigo for all seasons
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a memorial bell "tolls tolls and stops "
but his words . . .
blue dragonfly pine needles cover the narrow path
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the mountain pine?? "holding the light "
held by it
?bill's day??? draw the letters in aspen-glow
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a little cold and without the bright fish this golden pond
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gray october the poet's voice outlives him
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full moon and so my thoughts turn to you
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vest pocket park the leaves a little less brilliant
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at his passing?? a ripple in the river of stars
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misty shroud?? leaves falling between the rails
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sunset fades from the highest peak?? autumn chill
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higginson's haiku still among the living; the autumn wind
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a teacher's passing . . . moonlight bathes the apple tree
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another light now?? among the stars
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a gentle breeze ripples everywhere his words leaves on grass
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opening his book . . . the world he offered tumbles out
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beyond emptiness the moon filling itself for certain
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autumn evening . . . adding another star to the milky way
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prayer flags the autumn leaves carry the blessings to you
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cloudy day the janitor misses a fallen leaf
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surf murmurs the basso continuo behind the dunes
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this fragility?? white cranes laced in the air
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dry autumn the fading vibrance of a spider lily
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hard to tell you how i feel . . . this late autumn sky
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petrified forest a stone axe echoes in the sky
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autumn ginko one by one into mist
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harvest home a red nasturtium heads for the stars
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a single breath the ember comes to life
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leaving us in autumn . . . leaving behind him the blossoms to come
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ebbing tide a bright shell caught by the current
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tree leaves fall as the long journey begins a fading hymn
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white hydrangea fading in white light
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insect chirps lingering low on the ground the later moon
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heavy fog?? the mountain still back there out of sight
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what a silence! and nobody's around to share it with
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migrating birds?? i hear his voice in the wind toward nirvanna
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bleu roi a thousand flying foxes quarter moon
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walking alone the filtered sounds of the hototogisu
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dusk a half-ripe melon frees itself from the vine
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patter of raindrops in autumn leaves . . . the seasons turn
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his passing . . . the small fir collects fallen leaves
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starry night . . . a worn phone number in the handbook
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morning frost a monk's chant crosses the river
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stalagmites a passel of school children up ahead
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autumn leaves . . . in the book she gave me an old library stamp
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autumn gust the starlings? wings tilt in unison
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withered juniper?? mother's hair since the nursing home
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village temple?? kids behind the gods playing hide and seek
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through endless rain the whistle of the paperboy
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the taste of cider when fallen leaves begin to overlap
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bustling shoppers?? the bell ringer's prosthetic hand
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winter solstice . . . smoothing a folded corner in my library book
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a single bubble after the beaver dives the rising moon
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the gardener and his scarecrow the same hat
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crows swagger down the middle of the road summer's end
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starting school tomorrow?? he talks to trees at the woods? edge
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labor day a spot of barbecue sauce on the face of my watch
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summer's end two flies fighting over me
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old blue car?? the ease of summer's last days
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"a still starry night??" train tracks
wet with dew
scudding clouds the snake as long as my sleeve
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stump speech?? this black and white butterfly in none of the field guides
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thundercloud blue veins down to the heart of the gentian
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sunburst . . . bits of river through the mangroves
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a whiff of kelp as i clear out the trunk?? summer moon
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scenic outlook each step reveals more grasshoppers
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jasmine in bloom?? termites swarm from their nest
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bark butter?? a nuthatch works the edges
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mountain slopes getting wet as i walk through clouds
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city bus stop . . . the boy squats in the shadow of his pregnant mother
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so many ways to see the world snake in the grass
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haloed moon the hawker twirls his glow bracelets
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summer dawn the cat brings the rain to bed
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summer stars hot buttered corn on our smiles
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summer brook perfect skipping stone on the other side
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rain on summer sand a child writes the dead pony's name
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wet sand . . . the summer wind sets our pace
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peach season friends come to visit our tree
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coffee shop?? hearing his name in someone else's conversation
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father-in-law's death one gardenia petal falls in the rain
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razor wire in the lime tree a bird song
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rolling sunset . . . the dark side of a wave
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goldfish in the graveyard pond spring sunshine
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family reunion chachalacas shake the branches
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dusk the last calf settles into the herd
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morning rain a handful of strawberries just as cool
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beach walk i shift a coconut from hand to hand
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warming breeze?? the barber's pile of clippings a little bigger
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evening traffic . . . rubber lizards for sale still on the pavement
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first summer rain the bride and groom pause in their dance
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tin roof two doves settle into a groove
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village bells the sun-warmed odor of cattle
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museum dusk mannequin soldiers hold their ground
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nest-building?? a magpie sings with its mouth full
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softly the quail from their crowded crates greet the dawn
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april the shadows bloom
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spring book signing the poet's pen skips
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