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Many thanks to David McMurray for publishing my haiku in the Asahi Shimbun: nasturtiums-- even if the victory is pyrrhic Read more here: www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/artic... #haiku #senryu #micropoetry

ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK/ David McMurray | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysisbudding before spring like showing up early on your first day--John Xavier (Burnaby, British Columbia)www.asahi.com

If you're noticing a preoccupation with Greek mythology in my recent posts, please don't mistake that for me having enjoyed the Odyssey, the movie that asks: but what if Odysseus was an Iraq war vet who felt super guilty about bombing that school with a horse?

lotus as golem the sky with no instruction #monoku #micropoetry #poetry

Things that Descend Eurydice, into the underworld The notes of a diatonic scale Eurydice again Opheus, into madness #zuihitsu #micropoetry #poetry #vss365

record heat riding us like ponies until we run out #monoku #senryu #micropoetry

before I can be assassinated queenside castling #monoku #senryu #micropoetry

a beetle in the swimming pool and the curled up leaf it's drifting to #haiku #micropoetry #poetry

waning moon warning myself to get it right this time #haikufeels #senryu #micropoetry

ghost of itself fog around the summit #vss365 #monoku #micropoetry

lotus eating my phone all day #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu #micropoetry

Discussing Amelie with my gf this morning: "It's not cloying, it's French and the French are incapable of being cloying, that's why their chocolate is so good."

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last night's argument-- the broken branches left by the storm #fantaiku #micropoetry #poetry

unable to catch it buck moon #PaintbyWords #monoku #micropoetry

my heart is like a yo-yo-- I'm bad at it. no matter how I throw it, it won't come back #kyoka #micropoetry #poetry

hiding my wet sleeves at least this poem won't cry #senryu #micropoetry

i don't want to die i want more wrinkles than the ocean #monoku #senryu #micropoetry

the Gödel number assigned to the likelihood of a monkey to type this #kyoka

body as pond the way you don't ripple #monoku #micropoetry #senryu

I keep trying to tell you about other worlds, how things go differently whether they’re under the scope of might or must. How you shift the world or your words depends on the circumstances, on if you’re looking right at it or into the future. across infinity aleph by aleph the cardinals #vss365

Hyperborean WorldALT: Hyperborean Worldstatic.klipy.com

a mosquito at a karaoke bar but I can't drown out the sound of the itch #kyoka