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the spiders and i / weave a web to catch / our prey in the morning light // july is rife with spiders / and poets setting / clever sunrise traps

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Doggerel, if you will.

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Hammock stretched between / two palm trees near the ocean. / That's the haiku form.

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radio towers / across the river / have been there as long as i // can remember but they seem / newly fashioned in / the strange light of dawn

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a dream recounted in haiku stanzas

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A continuation of the Spokane Stanzas, which begin in the book Tulips for Elsie.

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the geese flew across / just as i pointed / my camera at the sunrise // no time to think about it / only the instant / seized in the instant

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sonnet

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the modeh ani / on my mind i rise / from an anxious sleep to greet // the flowers the grass the leaves / the sanctuary / of love surrounding

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black-eyed susan sunrise / on a chain-link fence / the sun overwhelming // a tree of heaven along / the highway looking / north towards heaven

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