from Salaryman (To Arrange Oneself)
Adapted Haiga To arrange oneself, like the iris, upright but approaching repose, half-closed, prepared to emerge.
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from Salaryman (Umami)
Adapted Haiga Umami or the taste of absence, a fading bell, like the fraying seam, anticipating the next tie or
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from a Conversation with Richard Gilbert
While at Naropa University, Richard Gilbert studied with beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Gary Snyder, and others,
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Working with Ghosts
Tanka Prose 1. I like being a ghost dentist. They don’t feel any pain, so I don’t have to
Five Senryū
Scrabble tiles spilled
across the bedroom floor—
no one keeping score.
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Four Haiku
icicles the mortgage paid off early highway of sleeping towns the Milky Way winter