Desideration,

no more! Consider me cured

of my affliction

without warning
the morning sky explodes
into a thousand dove wings

doodlebug craters--
miniature moonscape
beneath the shed's eaves

chouchin kumo
odoru inazuma
o-sentaku!

(trans from the japanese:)

paper lantern clouds
filled with dancing lightning
oh no, the laundry!

Love is a harsh word;
mistress of my servitude
gentle as the sun

--Apple, Austin TX, 12/06/2007

Clair De Lune

Moonlight meets the ocean
Sparkling the sky with crystal heart-shaped stars
Waves of unending dreams


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snow-covered desert
tip-toe critter tracks reveal
the hunt for breakfast

watermelon seeds
scattered in semi-circle
while grandfather laughs

original mind
rings like monastery bell
cold, just before dawn

lonesome silver moon
adrift in the sky's black tide
pearl of the abyss