As/Is







11.26.2003


Rockhampton notes

If tamarind pods
hung up
instead of down

they would make
emphatic
exclamation marks.

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found hay(na)ku

CROCODILE
sighting recently.
Swimming not advised!

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Whenever I drive
to the local
supermarket
I cross over the
Tropic of Capricorn.

It doesn't seem
any hotter
on the other side.

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The City Public Library entire American Poetry section haiku

Between Robert Frost
& Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Bette Midler's Poems.

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Centropus
phasianinus
or
Pheasant Coucal,
the only
Australian cuckoo
that doesn't
lay its eggs
in the nests
of other birds.