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SILENT LIGHTNING, 2 A.M.
lone firefly
adrift in warm
dark breeze
silent lightning
lake and sky
flash and fade
flash and fade
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MOSQUITOS WHINING
mosquitoes whining on
window screen
pink mars off in the dark sky
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WHEELS CRUNCH
wheels crunch gravel
door slams
dog barks
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AJAX HAIKU
mourning doves lament
wind chimes concerto
muffled traffic on harwood
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PERSEIDS A' SHOWERIN'
perseids a’ showerin’
dipper a’ dippin’
crickets a’ crickin’:
august in the maxwell settlement
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SETTLING INTO SAMADHI
settling into samadhi
on chopping block under sheltering pines:
red green chain saw off in the hills
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PARTRIDGE EXPLODES
partridge explodes
from autumn underbrush:
heart leaps
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YELLOW DOG
yellow dog:
silent sentinel on
hill of brown earth
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BIG DIPPER
big dipper
recumbent in
black north sky
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SWING AX
swing ax:
pings of kindling
split from sweet cedar shake
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SCRAPPING MONKS IN A ZENDO
scrapping monks in a zendo
slapping and kicking their way
to enlightenment
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LOVE AND MARRIAGE
early symbiosis
morphs into tense alliance
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RED & WHITE (TWO-TONE)
red & white (two-tone) ’57 Ford with fender skirts
give thumbs up to driver; feel choked-up emotion
like seeing an old friend after too many years
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AS SENSELESSLY ICONOCLASTIC AS
as senselessly iconoclastic as
a lone woman with a fez and a bullhorn
preaching Islam at indifferent pedestrians
corner of Markham and Eglinton
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OBSERVATION
I was a boy high in a tree
when they brought the news
that Aunt Mamie had died
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Copyright 2007 Allan O'Marra