L'aura del Campo

#14 sashimi ktanka tataki

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

406 61a A flash of / headlights — dark whoosh / of an owl
407 61b Thunder rumbling — / I light a candle / for the storm
408 61c Four mats in a / three mat room — we / sleep touching
409 61d Writing love / letters — I live alone / between mountain

410 62a Do not rake / those old brown leaves — / crocuses bloom *FF
411 62b After rain / the Helleborus Moon — sun / hides its shame *FF?
412 62c Neighbors pass by / my door — showers beckon; / the toilet stinks
413 62d Staying home — / waiting for visitors / that never come
414 62e I would invite you / but — I value peace / and quiet more

415 62a I close my door / to compose thoughts no one / will read
416 63b At the hour of / pine needles — snow pings grass / like hail
417 63c A cloudy day / to nap at my leisure — / nightmares follow
418 63d I sleep with someone / I have never been with before — / dreams are like that (nightmares too)

419 64a In the window / a pot of pink flowers looks / out at the rain
420 64b The path of the wind / blew the other way — I'm / still here
421 64c Sunset-gazing / bridge — the clouds are un-/ ruffled today
422 64d The bridge connecting / this town is lonely — no traffic / on a holiday

423 65a Almost a stray / ray of sun — a cloud / swats at it
424 65b Butterfly wings / encased in ice — beauty / weeps with the melt
425 65c Road Repair Season — / must my rest wait / until Summer
426 65d We live with pigs; / we die with pigs — what they eat / eats us
427 65e Glow on the moun-/ tain receding — is it / that late? *FF
428 65f Road repair / season — bright lights / disturb my sleep // birds fly elsewhere — blooming / daffodils cannot escape KTANKA or not?

429 66a You stay; / I go. — Summer and winter / never meet
430 66b As the day / ends — a new moon / waxes
431 66c In Spring — fall / of the autumn's / old oak leaves
432 66d Sunset traffic; / zanates sing — I must choose / which to hear (notice)
433 66e Did your firewood / last till Spring — does your / old heart quicken
434 66f Urine stained / shorts — drip drying / over the sink (Montana)

435 67a The sun only naps / this short night — / I cannot sleep
436 67b A short night — / sun sneaks north behind / the mountains
437 67c The short night: / two twilights, / no stars
438 67d The short night — / four o'clocks bloom / past dawn
439 67e So confused this / short night — is it an owl / or a gull

440 68a A slave to / potatoes — the gardener toils / spring to autumn
441 68b Mountains milk / the clouds — come summer / trout will thank them
442 68c Evening before my / birth — do shadows grow longer / as I grow older
443 68d Puddles glisten — / we will miss them come August / fire and smoke
444 68e The last avocado / has been bought — there are none / to pick

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