a bird
out on the prairie
bathing at a pool
the starlight
thrown down
the singing throat
finding
a smaller
cheaper bar
the engaged man
drinks alone
till morning
a word
of anger
tattooed on his arm
the circus clown
takes the dollar
hands me the balloon
today's
wind
smells green---
I think of your cottage
shaded by pines
a hundred miles away
Previously
Published
dead
cat . . .
open-mouthed
to the pouring rain
overtaken
by a single cloud,
and letting it pass . . .
a poppy
. . .
a field of poppies!
the hills blowing with poppies!
a broken window
reflects half the moon,
half of me
60 stories
of glass:
the summer moon
heat lightning --
all the way into Mexico
the mountains rise
below the falls
the bright night
runs swift again
windless day . . .
down the line of aspens
pass the years
crescent moon . . .
moths come touching
spikes of the iris
the day's first bull
trots into the ring
. . . snow on the mountains
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Author: Michael McClintock
Editor: Billie Wilson
Credits
"dead cat" - Light Run (Shiloh, 1971)
"overtaken" - Byways (England, 1971)
"a poppy" - Haiku Magazine 5:1 (Canada 1971)
"a broken window" - Haiku Magazine 4:4 (Canada 1971)
"60 stories" - Maya: Selected Poems (Seer Ox, 1976)
"heat lightning" - The Heron's Nest (April 2000)
"below the falls" - Frogpond XXII.1 (2000)
"windless day" - Up Against the Window: American Haibun & Haiga,
Vol 1 Red MoonPress (1999)
"crescent moon" - The Heron's Nest (March 2000)
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