Haiku (俳句)

  • ants antennating
    in a sunbeam…
    no secrets

    def. antennating

    The act of an insect touching, drumming, or sweeping its antennae against an object or another insect, primarily to communicate or sense chemical cues.

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  • tea plantation tour…
    without the guide’s instructions
    tasting the fog

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  • deer reserve—
    two Jane Does
    kissing

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  • gardening the shade of amateur green

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  • blue hour
    the marigolds
    resisting it

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  • deep in reflection
    the spider lily becomes
    a jumpscare

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  • chronic cold…
    oxymetazoline hydrochloride,
    then night jasmines

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  • ballparking
    the colors of dusk…
    cuckoo! cuckoo!

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  • summer rain…
    the sun taking its time
    down the old slide

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  • the softness
    of the stone bench…
    creeping pond water

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  • walkway fog
    conversations quieting
    as I pass

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  • summer rain…
    the sun taking its time
    down the old slide

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  • locked gate…
    looking back at
    the birdhous

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  • the crow refuses
    to be shooed—
    new haircut

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  • quarrelling neighbours…
    all parked cars get
    shat on anyway

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  • Fresh off an edge-of-the-seat thriller.

    a dog
    chasing a man
    . . . they’re together!

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  • tough summer
    retreating into
    the poems in me

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  • raking leaves —
    the white noise
    of shared grief

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  • a house sparrow
    in the rafters
    … long way from home

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