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Senryu Series 12 by Laurence55, literature
Literature
Senryu Series 12
1.
adjunct office
even the printer
struggles
2.
patio nap
he still wakes up
in Iraq
3.
essay due
his grandmother dies
again
4.
cult documentary
another gnat
in the lemonade
5.
overcast,
I choose not to round
her grade
6.
my rent
on the preacher's back,
autumn wind
7.
corporate merger
a new boss, the age
of my son
7(b)
corporate ladder
the boss graduates
with my son
8.
gossip blog
the same old bats
circling
9.
turning 60
even his shadow
thins
10.
eviction notice
I purchase 10 acres
on Farmville
11.
deep in love
she invades my side
of the bed
12.
meeting her dad
a loose thread
in my sweater
13.
newly wed
until debt
do
Tanka Series 14 by Laurence55, literature
Literature
Tanka Series 14
1.
within this world
of poverty and murder
a brown bat
licking
her newborn
2.
counting raindrops
one by one…
the votes
that denied
your clemency
3.
hurricane wind
from miles offshore
the quiet
steady pull
of my homeland
4.
what it means
to be Black in America…
new clouds
wrapping
the same autumn moon
5.
full moon
at the end of April
can my heart
really belong
to one woman?
6.
the spiral dive
of a red-tailed hawk
how much
is lost
in translation?
7.
qigong practice
from deep in the gut
an owl
exhaling
the darkness
8.
falling darkness
with no one around,
I enter
the orchestra
of insects
9.
crows picking
at an unknown
Haiku Series 4 by Laurence55, literature
Literature
Haiku Series 4
1.
shedding
his old ways too…
spring gecko
2.
heavy dusk—
a brown bat shifts
to ragtime
3.
protest morning
shoulder to shoulder...
the sparrows
4.
after guns
after tear gas...
spring moon
5.
in the heat
of impending war…
autumn snail
6.
after divorce
the spaces between
stars
7.
billiard hall...
another universe
begins
8.
deep winter
the mountain shrinking
to sparrows
9.
predawn hike
the quiet inhale
of stones
10.
solstice night,
wrinkles in the mountain
grow deeper
11.
New Year's morning
the stray's 9th life
expires
12.
Chicago morning
even the pigeons
bustle
13.
semester over
a crow dips
into slang
