POEM 030/100

August 24, 2012

This anxiety

that I’ve forgotten

something I should feel

an acute anxiety over

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POEM 029/100

August 22, 2012

Reading Takuboku

he reveals the pine needles of his life

but not the forest, not the trees

 

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POEM 028/100

August 16, 2012

Komorebi — Japanese for light

dappled through trees

 

Such delicate beauty

until the leaves

turn grey

and fall

apart

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POEM 027/100

August 1, 2012

There’s a specific type of pity

I hold in reserve

for teenage girls, uglier

than their mothers

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