Voyeurs Exposed

Red herrings, my eye— 

Didn’t they tell you 

 

Words have a habit 

Of disguising themselves 

 

Before the fact so 

As not to be caught 

 

Red-handed in the act? 

 

 

 

Haiku: Close By Eden

Discarded snake skins, 

Apples gone bad on the ground, 

Sly whispers abound. 

 

 

 

Haiku: Classical Empathy

Stand stoically rock- 

Still and feel these stones quiver 

In the lizard heat. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Intricate Evasions Of As (Parts One and Two)

 

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the intricate evasions of as

 

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"Poetry Lesson," Fifty Years Later

And yet, we still know something 

Of that bittersweet ambivalence— 

 

The draining out of love in syllables 

Taught us, among other things, silence 

 

And how we talked our way around it.

 

https://vazambam.blogspot.com/2010/05/poetry-lesson.html