L'aura del Campo

#27 sashimi tataki ktanka (857-886)

I wrote while sitting during sessions of the Montana Book Festival held here in Missoula. I had left my notepad home... therefore wrote on a regular sheet of paper. I wrote one piece and then started wring my three line pieces... unfortunately I couldn't stop. Therefore they were number/lettered A through Å. Usually A-G... maybe H will fit on one page. Not today! Ah... obsession... once past J had to keep going.

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

857 Dust covers shelves / of neglected books — nest / for a mouse [239a]
858 Coats gather / where books line shelves — listen / to mysteries [239b]
859 Calm as we enter / the bookstore — until a guest / reader shouts [239c]
860 Characters share / their voices — the writer a mere / puppeteer [239d]
861 Bacon egg biscuit — / this writer kills off characters / with food [239e]
862 This writer kills / characters with food — I munch / on a biscuit [239ee]
863 Downside of / seventy — she takes the curve / with a grin [239f]
864 She oozes / salt of the earth — I / crave sugar [239g]
865 What story / has the poet written — / between the lines [239h]
866 We pass the / spoon — one bowl of soup / for both of us [239i]
867 In the poor- / house — she hides her gold lock- / et between her _ [239j]
868 My tremor / strengthens — so little time / left to write [239k]
869 Mark sorts out the / detritus of Ed's life — gold / from false gold [239L]
870 He works chisel / to stone — scratches hidden / initials [239m]
871 No one dares / interrupt — the voice of the / dead stills us [239n]
872 O Mannequin! / Grin in the store window. / I'll grin back [239o]
873 Peaches — next / year; the trees have taken / a nap [239p]
874 Quince blooms / each March — Somewhere / I'm not [239q]
875 Rose blooms past / the frost — refuses to die / just yet [239r]
876 Since I left — / your life reaches heights / unburdened [239s]
877 Tongues enter — / where lips cannot / follow [239t]
878 Until we meet / again — these words a highway / connecting us [239u]
879 Vampires do / not persist — red trails across / the sky [239v]
880 Benedikt pets / a wallaby — youth grows / boundless [239w]
881 ...Xcept he / remembers — bruise of a / three year old [239x]
882 Y don't i / visit — i leave scabs / as they are [239y]
883 Zero gravity — / only magnets bind us / to each other [239z]
884 Aerie of / bone and feather — I / put on a hat [239æ]
885 Ø — a / sailor stranded without / family [239ø]
886 She clops clops / clops — gallops through / our meeting [239å]

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