ㅁ People believe things that appear in front of them... for example: sky.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Category: Book 2
Caveat: Poem #869 “In southeast Oklahoma”
ㅁ the fogged sun rises a pond swallows the bare trees and cows malinger.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #868 “The wasteland”
ㅁ a man-made desert made of asphalt and dead grass... a small bird finds seeds.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #867 “Keeping time”
ㅁ old music reveals human minds' complexities and time just passes
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #866 “Social creatures”
ㅁ food and talk; gathering for discourses and storytelling, the speakers taking turns, among reliable friends and their inquisitive children; outside, the cold night lays down hoarfrost.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #865 “Summary of a ghost’s sojourn”
ㅁ known to be unknown an odd sort of infamy adrift in the woods
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #864 “The obstinacy of inanimate stuff”
ㅁ the snow malingers where it fell, stubborn and cold, impertinently.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #863 “Aspirationally asemic”
ㅁ the names that things have are not fixed, but rather drift unnamed, dawn happens
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #862 “And waits”
ㅁ the trees are frosted by the night's exhalations; now a raven sits
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #861 “The expansion”
ㅁ the cold penetrates, burrows in and takes over; but the sky expands
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #860 “Make it count for something”
ㅁ ice blue light fallen leaves chilling breezes paths made through fresh snow the frozen surfaces the tortured shapes of bare trees exuberances of night air enumerations of winter's wants
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #859 “The specimen”
ㅁ the air becomes cold it ceases to move around and snow pins the ground.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #858 “Looking out the window at a suburban yard”
ㅁ A squirrel flinches and kicks up a puff of snow; some snowflakes drift down.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #857 “The engine of history”
ㅁ a calamity: the wind tears at the bare trees and reveals the gods
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #856 “Food on its mind”
ㅁ the rabbit emerged then it hopped across the yard looking for breakfast
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #855 “As seen out the window”
ㅁ sparse fragments of snow presented themselves to me swirling across glass
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #854 “Bread, coffee”
ㅁ breakfast bread with jam; a cup of coffee of course; chill dawn waits outside
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #853 “Conjunction”
ㅁ and the slanted sky and the yellow grassy hills and the river rests
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #852 “Anxiety”
ㅁ anxiety is nefarious creeping by secret passages asserting unlikely things discoursing about doubts taking possession so maybe just take a breath inhale sigh
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #851 “The writing in the world”
ㅁ Fog and trees up the hill below the sky, which is well hidden, but peeks through, pink and gold; the trees' branches like brush strokes, uninvented ideographs, abstract characters drawn against white.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #850 “Dodging raindrops”
ㅁ the hummingbird waits hovering by the feeder avoiding steady rain
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #849 “Dukkha”
ㅁ lie down, suffering walk along, still suffering oh, there's a nice leaf.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #848 “Disbursement”
ㅁ fragments of water strewn across narrow valleys filling in deep holes
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #847 “November’s plan”
ㅁ Fog's condensation lining the tips of branches outline November.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #846 “Nekkhamma”
ㅁ Moments of friendship, Unintended kindnesses, Slow entanglements.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #845 “The requirements of the day”
ㅁ Thanks: for life; for weather; for happiness; for looming mountains; for the colorful leaves; for long walks in a downpour; for a moment of reflection; for pauses after conversation.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #844 “The leaf”
ㅁ the night gives the day the sun makes the falling rain a leaf there lies still
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #843 “Behind the wheel”
ㅁ drive off the ferry, go through customs, drive in the rain to Tim Hortons drive to a rest area drive up the river's path drive east to Prince George drive through the snow drive at night drive south drive.
– a nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #842 “Prince Rupert, BC”
ㅁ Twenty years ago I was here in Prince Rupert. It is still raining.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #841 “Consumed”
ㅁ light comes out so slowly: gradually, it forces aside the grasping bits of dark which the trees have eaten, and finally a bold grayness suffuses reality with calm.
– a reverse nonnet.
Caveat: Poem #840 “Serve yourself”
ㅁ The dawn is like soup: a broth of gray fills the air, chilled, unsavory.
– a pseudo-haiku.
Caveat: Poem #839 “Post mortem”
ㅁ So twenty blurry years ago today I made a try at dying: took some pills... instead became a ghost abroad. It stayed as if a dream had taken over this... this world, this life, this cold oneiric space. I found I could not stop my headlong trip because each trembling leaf I saw had grace. And finally, the ghost had found his will.
– some lines of blank verse (iambic pentameter).
Caveat: Poem #838 “Emergent phenomena”
ㅁ among the shadows nothing is necessary the gods just emerge
– a pseudo-haiku.
