ku at Under the Basho
astray
the pond
I lied to
magpie chapter
you can tell whose ‘I’
is ripped
let it be
if a mollusk’s pulse
corresponds to a fugue
the word “seed”
lodged between
my incisors
Under the Basho ku, 2019
UtB-ku 2019 https://underthebasho.com/utb-2019/ku/2633-alegria-imperial.html
summer dusk
summer dusk
a dog sniffs
an empty chair
Selected by Dhugal J. Lindsay
The Mainichi, Japan’s National Daily, July 2, 2019
inside out (a sequence)
muffled wildness a winnowing sky
coughing out the sphere rogue wind
ashen dust between fingers palm ribs
outlines against the rain bones inside out
eggshell stillness un-swept sun-shreds
conical jaws vs marbles in a skull graveyard issues
empty eyes glued to a rootless ‘O’
dangling words noone follows swollen whiteness
Bones 17 July 15, 2019 (journal of contemporary haiku)
single haiku (not proficient, the song I used to hear, the train creeps away)
not proficient
with birdsong
a plane arriving
the song I used to hear
swish-swash
of a bamboo broom
the train creeps away
the hours emptying
the houses
bones 17, July 15, 2019 (journal of contemporary haiku)
LOGOS AND ANIMUS INTERPRETED
if eye-to-eye with a salamander
talk Heidegger or
drop down flat on your belly
hiss if you can
wait for existential footnotes
be sure to tiptoe
what if a rat
spews out philosophy
like the state of consciousness
in a walnut
the brain you ask
frog guffaws a croak
in fact, a song
confusing reality with logos
frog’s right in that
easier to breathe out pretense
than tug your tie clear your throat
of animus
and begin on a ribbibit
otata July 2019