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Haibun of modern style, lined rather than prose.
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Fear
is the cautious horse I've ridden
all
my adult life. I don't call it fear.
I
call it good sense, as in, I have better..
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Springtime
is showing why
it's
spring-it's coiled, ready
to
unwind and it's much
colder
today, a chill wind
back
a..
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Midair
collision barely avoided
600
souls will now safely land.
Stress
is a pair of vice grips, we
controller..
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I
consider myself civilized.
I’m
a diet grape soda instead
of hoped for cola, or at worst,
ginger ale.
I..
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I'm
late to start already.
My
ideas have fled.
My
pen is scratching
where
there is no itch
and
my itches are out of ink.
..
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These
mint-striped fudge cookies
are
from a store; my aunt claims
she
made them. I can tell the difference
between
sto..
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Had you asked, I
would
have jumped
at
the chance to
get
your car out
of
the garage. You
didn't
ask-you
assumed.
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Thursday
after classes I
got you
pregnant, and our
carefree
teen lives ended
badly.
Passion, white-hot
lava,
stea..
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I
think of you as water,the
crashes
and roarsof
massive
breakers, momentousswells
chasing
smallertoward
the shore wherea
b..
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