9 Haiku

Flash! A silver cross 
on the rooftop of a church
in the grey noon sky

White fluorescent glare

and a high sad soaring voice—
train station singer

That man driving by

loves the idea of himself
smoking a cigar

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My breathing and these
three crossed black wires in the sky—
all I know right now

“The word hibiscus
sounds like a snake that’s yawning”
she said while she stretched

Prisms of branches

crisscrossing in the canyon—
a silence supreme

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Little flower face
gazes up shyly, blushing—
cold morning garden

Up from the subway—
a cloud of birds flickering
in a blooming sky

Bright antenna arm
on the rooftop of a house,
silver in the sun

 

 

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dream poem by Bukowski

I sit in a cashier’s booth at a gas station

watching money flow into me

and out of me

and the evening

sighs at me
through a screen



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Ride The Rise

That one got a glow that goes right through you 
That one got a lively light
That one knows a hope that flows into you
Shining through two diamond eyes

That one got a tongue that sings like silver
That one got a voice so bright
That one knows this wicked world can kill you
But we got a mighty life

That one tricked the traps with maps of laughter
That one got a vibrant mind
That one saw the crap we scramble after
And he left it all behind

That one got a face that’s all our faces

That one smiles like a sky
That one got a soul that knows what grace is
Every time we breathe we fly

Ride the rise while it’s climbing so high

We got time ‘til the night
The world is scheming and we know it’s dreaming
Up a lie that’ll try to blind us every time

That one knows a man can change his story

That one wrote his own romance
That one quit a road that’s cold and lonely
Hatched himself another plan

That one don’t get sunk in funky places

That one does a lover’s dance
That one ain’t hung up in stunts and chases
But he got a gambler’s chance

Yeah he got gambler’s chance



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