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a monkey listens to his own breath . . . autumn rain
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watching my wife's ashes float by. . . autumn moon
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memories of you in rice field shadows . . . september moon
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incoming tide . . . your breasts rise and fall
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humid morning . . . planting rice in a field of mirrors
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your reflection floating in a tea cup too hot to drink
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harvest moon . . . a new song in the rice field
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a laborer sowing dreams in a field of stars
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"come morning " fish scales and the letter
you didn't send
laborers sink into the rice field .. . . autumn dusk
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lanternless night . . . a woman too old to dream
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morning haze . . . a post office clerk opening letters
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morning twilight . . . the rice field in her eyes
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sunday morning . . . her shadow on a clothesline
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harvest moon . . . a shadow sorting laundry
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passing dreams . . . the night scented with laundry soap
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a cockroach in my rice bowl . . . unaware of dawn
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autumn cool . . . wondering what an ant thinks about after work
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"in the clouds " a fish i haven't
seen before
"ah crickets!" the neighbors ceased
playing mahjong
summer rain . . . the mountain sinks into a rice field
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high noon . . . fish in the marketplace gasping for water
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the stillness of a moth that didn't reach the moon
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petals pressed between pages of a book i never read
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short night . . . thoughts of you and a paper thin moon
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speaking to her ashes between summer moons
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humid day--- her t-shirt refuses to dry
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day moon--- her skin a half shade lighter
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memories of her floating in a leftover cup of tea
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summer grass--- my mother's rice paper skin
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moonless night--- remembering her small breasts
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twilight watching my shadow float downriver
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sipping more than just tea---- the moon in passing
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eyeing the apple at buddha's feet
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"the farmer " planting corn under
a pregnant moon
drunk tonight--- an elixir of cherry blossoms and moonlight
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his shadow passes me by--- the charcoal seller
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the potter's fingers wet with clay--- first rain
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saying the rosary a laborer planting rice
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rainy night--- her phone number in my wallet
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cold night the clink of bottles in a grocery cart
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contemplating nightfall--- the stone buddha
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the offering in front of the stone buddha eaten by cats
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"between two rivers " the echo of
his mallet
sunday afternoon--- a steam train pushes back the fog
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eating rice--- how many stars are in the sky ?
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falling leaves--- a trail of clothing leads to the bed
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"biting his nails " a little boy watches
the outgoing tide
cold night--- my reflection sipping coffee
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moon viewing--- warming my hands with a cup of coffee
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all hallows eve--- stars paint the cemetery ground
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all saints day--- spent candles in the cemetery
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dark clouds--- a student drawing with charcoal
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egrets plucking shadows at dusk
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fading this autumn night--- the heron's legs
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sculpting "clay the potter"
at dawn
master wind sweeping the temple zealously
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house cleaning--- the forest fire at dawn
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metal birds fly south to the forest fire
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even my pee stays inside this cold winter night
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snowfall--- a milk mustache on my daughter's face
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geese honking--- children in the bathtub playing
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"lakeside " below the egret---
a city of lights
thousands of miles "away her first birthday---"
fresh mango
swimming across the moonlit sky--- a gray carp
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half moon darkness drinking from an alabaster teacup
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floating down river an egret's shadow
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dried wheat grass--- a bleached blond combing her hair
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no stars in the sky tonight hungry carp
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burning leaves this foggy evening--- two kinds of smoke
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waiting for winter--- eating rice balls under a full moon
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"scooping steamed rice " the laborer
at sundown
windswept afternoon--- tea scent on my tongue
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"thank you mango---" for a moment i was
somewhere else
passing cars replace sheep this sleepless night
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reoccurrence of cancer --- no spring this year
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along the tracks "in the dark to where"
the candles are
returning light a robin sings and sings
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hospice window the roar of the spring tide receding
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only the winter chrysanthemums remain morning moon
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the red cap of a green woodpecker. . . first flakes of snow
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how else to know the shape of the breeze dancing blossoms
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winter solstice each day the boy's smile wider
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news of his death the winter jasmine wreathed in mist
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season of mists. . . a calling of wild geese arrows south
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amber leaves caught between 'for sale' and 'sold'
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old manor house each empty room has its own echo
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slender grasses and warm summer rain touching the buddha
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into dusk the white rose still whiter
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heat lightning— the first drop of sweat on her chin
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morning mist green tips of onions cracking the soil
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equinox— the double ferris wheel across the lake
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through a train window— the blurs of lifetimes on walls of graffiti
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pre-dawn silence a Greyhound bus shifts gears
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hard freeze— lingering steam from a new-born calf
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becoming dusk "rooftop to treetop "
the echo of crows
night bus stop the plop of a Styrofoam cup and swirl of coffee
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lengthening days even the morning glory a shade bluer
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long afternoon the occasional tapping of a screen door
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"cold foggy night—" only the echo
of a buoy's bell