L'aura del Campo

#17 Haikuish sashimi tataki ktanka

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

Not feeling well as I enter these and edit. Some are fine but others are very weak (like me today). I'll need to reread and re-edit. Some will not survive to be shared with others.

507 80a When I leave — do / geraniums serenade / the jade trees
508 80b Each patch of / land — its own kingdom / its own stories
509 80c Oh, the hoot / of an owl — remind me / I'm still alive
510 80d A circus / of fleas — the cats / and me
511 80e The flag waves like / a weather-vane — wind speed / and direction
512 80f I give a home / to carpets — they hug / me in return
513 80g Lights of the city / shone too bright — now they / light his grave (rewritten)

514 81a It was warm / today — why do I shiver / by my open window
515 81b If I give names / to my plants — will they / call me human
516 81c Boom-box — the / mating call of the young / male human
517 81d Homeless camp / in the canyon — howling / winds deafen their (sighs)
518 81e The moon enters / my window — I do not heed / its wisdom
519 81f My friends know / not to speak — I must / have coffee first
520 81g The bricks have / stories — but mortar has / sealed their lips

521 82a Spring night / falls — I shiver by the / open window
522 82b Vultures scavenge / our garbage — what do they know / that we don't *FF
523 82c The beetles go in / and out of eye-sockets — / what do they see
524 82d I avoid mirrors — / the man looking back / looks far too old
525 82e Will my red holly- / hock bloom before the killing / frost? Ah... snow
526 83f Blessèd is the / season between snow — and / mosquitoes
527 82g Only seen once — / green luna-moth as big / as my hand

528 83a Ants make way / for humans — humans make / way for tanks
529 83b Daffodils / bloom — snowdrops / still linger
530 83c I over sleep. / Nothing to do today. / Maybe tomorrow?
531 83d We bruise the Earth — / at the end we sleep / in her bosom
532 83e A woodpecker /drums in a tree — but / which tree
533 83f Willow branches / gently part the / flooding waters *FF
534 83g In my dream — / our child glows like / a firefly

535 84a Did nothing right; / did nothing wrong — not / a noteworthy day
536 84b So few at lunch / today — too nice to / stay inside
537 84c The wind blows / angry against the pot- / ted plants
538 84d My birthday / yesterday — today one more / blue sky
539 84e Finally blue / sky — must've blown in / from somewhere else
540 84f No coats, no / sweaters — sunshine / reigning over us

541 85a As I settle / into bed the dust settles / over me
542 85b They share a plate / of french fries — neither / touches the last one
543 85c An open prairie / filled with joy — an / ocean of tears
544 85d Be kind to worms — / who else would dare to / eat us later
545 85e I would watch / the dawn with you but — you / have left for work
546 85f I cannot hear / ducks quack — the flooding / river roars
547 85g Spring tries to / linger past sunset — winter / still rules the night

86a-e was written during "Bullets into Bells" and are based on my personal experiences.

548 86a Shots rang out — / uniforms gathered like ants / at a picnic (November 1998)
549 86b I was never allowed / to point a toy — guns were / dangerous (growing up in the 50s)
550 86c Finger to my / head — was it a gun, / a bluff (I can't remember when; 80s I think)
551 86d Geese not / welcome — we warn them / with rifles (Kansas, Autumn 1975)
552 86e Armed guards / we get off — we get / back on (Peru, July 1974)

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