William J. Higginson
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More intricate
than all winter's designs,
this spring flake
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from the sandy beach
I stumble into the dark
path fireflies
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A wet night
garbage cans all full
but the far one
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The clock chimes
chimes and stops
but the river . . .
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Holding the water
held by it—
the dark mud.
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caterpillar
atop the rock
the rising tide
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evening star
almost within
the moon’s half curve
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this spring rain
the thief too
curses his job
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grey dawn
ice on the seats
of the rowboat
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the tick, tick
of snow on the reeds . . .
sparrow tracks
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New Year’s Eve . . .
thieves have left my car open
in the falling snow
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commercial break—
the cat and I
head for the kitchen
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the fence post
hangs upright in the washout—
mid-summer heat
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going over a bump
the car ahead
going over a bump
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the old cat
hesitates on the doorsill—
a falling leaf
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summer storm . . .
a shopping cart rolls past
the end of the lot
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winter twilight
only a few old bakers
in the potato bin
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crescent moon
would I look at the clouds
without it?
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origami frog:
what old pond is he hoping
to find in the dusk?
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I look up
from writing
to daylight.
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writing again
the tea water
boiled dry
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reading renku—
every stanza links with
the midwinter cricket
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thankful for
the books just received . . .
snow piling up
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musty smell
forgotten . . . deep
into the text
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spring rain
rereading my own book
I fall asleep
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Christmas concert
I sit in the seat of my
hospitalized friend
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misty rain—
dry pavement under
the ambulance
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fireworks crashing
and fireflies so silent . . .
tomorrow the biopsy
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one maple leaf . . .
end over end on the sand
without a trace
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wet snow —
another color or two
on the sycamore boughs
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bend after bend
hill after hill folds into
Mogamigawa
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Good Friday
just out of tree shadow
the white hyacinth