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Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2
   
  Yoyoshi: Grace Notes - a Womanly Renga
       
  describing grace notes
in the hedgerow
goldfinches
kk
  scent of wild-roses
leads my morning walk
ey
  below the cliff trail
the ocean
breathes in waves
ha
  a captain counts fathoms
in the narrow channel
kk
  gossamer
released by the wind
to an open sky
ha
  a wafer moon
in the cirrocumulus
ey
  carefully
illuminated poems:
the ink stone now washed
kk  
  grapes on her kimono
follow every move
ha  
       
  one placed
a bit apart from others,
dewy stepping stones
ey  
  a soft leather bridle slips
over the Arab's ears
kk  
  calm
the pale pearl-faced woman
that lives inside me
ha  
  after her cough,
a voice so naturally seductive
ey  
  the silence amassed
behind each grass blade
a daybreak parting
ey  
  the young scientist
awakes in a bat-filled cave
kk  
  dreams dissolve
with the sugar crystals
in his tea cup
ha  
  a warped world on
the spoon that ran away
ey  
  Krakatoa's ash
turns a lightening moon
totally blue
kk  
  echoes of geese
heard in the shadows
ha  
  bones seen
penetrated, how fish sleeps
in the clear tank water
ey  
  a vision of Liberty
balancing another life
kk  
  new mother rests
a flowering peach branch
knocks at the window
ha  
  long day ends
carpenters gather their tools
ey  
       
  all night
raindrops from the leaking roof
in a metal pail
ha  
  once upon a time, a gnome
spun straw into pure gold
kk  
  plaits of her hair
unbound and streaming
bike for the two
ey  
  space between their lips
disappears into a kiss
ha  
  beyond the planets
what do aliens know
of this writhing in pleasure
kk  
  why did Kierkegaard
break away from his fiancee ...
ey  
  the road darkens
as the snowdrifts rise
on either side
ha  
  two brothers drive a pick-up
across the frozen lake
kk  
  aroma of cedar
fills the village shrine
for the Lady
ey  
  a dusty gyroscope
in our childhood toy chest
ha  
  from our barn
suckling sounds ... now
the foal staggers slightly
kk  
  moist mud on her hand
cut potatoes planted
ey  
  through the haze
the perfect roundness
of the Spring moon
ha  
  a 78 record playing
on top of Old Smoky
kk  
       
  folks see off bon-boats
that withdraw below
the heaving horizon
ey  
  the reflection of fire
on the brandy snifters
ha  
  he repeats. . .
he repeats stories
of his reckless youth
kk  
  "and ... a river runs through it"
hot tears well up
ey  
  swallowing
life rafts of pain pills
with sips of chill
ha  
  a zephyr returns
changing everything
ey  
  a queen proceeds
through white-hazed dogwood
peace offering ceremony
kk  
  the stone frog covered at last
in soft new moss
ha  

 

 

Started: 7 June, 2004
Completed:  12 December, 2004

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