Under the Bashō 2023
PostKu
Editor: Clayton Beach
living in someone else’s dream house
ellipses the falcon slows in front of me
eyewall the gale circling my calm
the space between ma and ma
reality show wedding
dripping on toast
something off
with the last light in the kitchen
for get me not
he confesses it’s because i’m fat…bonobo moon
Spasmodic torticollis
sounds like the name of a cloud
but never goes away
mock orange
your life and mine
more parallel than twine
three sheets to the wind instinctively unthroupling
a stony path into the blue room. “Weep and wail” to quote St. James
merely a corner of the world with no red chairs
bending slightly in the right knee to give a shape to the heat
forgot to lose my head among the thistles and windless Fridays
one ear for Josquin’s In Te Domine Speravi and one for housing the rain
in its corner the shadow hardly registers on the introspectrometer
if by touch you moved the North to the South and tipped over a cricket
bitter flint and the name of the star is wormwood
the cupboard spider’s aimless back-and-forth cicatrix
its decimal neither repeating nor terminating hototogisu
irrational numbers eating my m&m’s in color order
flowers rain
before
rain leaves
song bat
thought
returns that
snow fall
inside
nine bells
cold toes leaves cold the last cold leaves
sitting by the sea
just sitting by the sea just
sitting by the sea
another autumn to be simple yellow leaves
wind waves leaves waves shadows wave
water rushing over stones in a snowstorm
r e (f) u s e s
sphinxlike a rivulet throbbing this age in my breast
brown love letters :: i miss the field where he is a stallion
deepening my tiredness like mother's description of autumn
through the gentle gate i follow the rain's vision
dawn breaking a backbone unfolds to dust
underbelly a sun thick with jaundice
shattering earth a bone grows downwind
to a god unbecoming thinness of moon