18 Haiku

Little birds pecking
at overhead power lines—
please be careful there!

A bare muddy hill

against a movie-screen sky—
morning after rain

Good-looking woman

surrounded by the results—
kids traipsing to school

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A laughing seagull
swoops through a still street at dawn—
sky like flaming foil

Clouds like giant leaves,

like cyclones crowding the sky—
like continents!

As seen by Jack Kerouac:

A pregnant woman

rolls a baby carriage past
a cemetery

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Little girl in pink

crosses the street in the dark—
off to school with mom

The slumbering line

of a dark-hilled horizon
under waking skies

Battling this aging

like a man shaking his fist
at a booming sea

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She sleeps with crashing

battalions in her head!
Earphoned passenger

Gregory Corso, poet:

Once at summer camp

he kissed the moon glowing in
a barrel of rain

Old age—I see first

leaves fall, then more fall, and then
that’s all I see

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Burst of orange sparks

flutters like glowing ashes
from a turning train

Silver airplane glints
over solemn blots of clouds—
chilly morning sky

Washing before bed—

and already preparing
tomorrow’s excuse!

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A bark like a beep—

white puppy in a parked car
calling her keeper

Clouds of seagulls swarm

like…orphans from a beehive!
Dazzling morning sun

Thanks for the red wine,

my friends who just visited—
it tastes good alone



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