Valentine's Day Haiku, 2003


gentleman caller
greets ladyfriend delikat;
kind lush gesturing

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an awkward solace
distance process connection
let go to be near

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barbara is family
'bring her in, i'll grill her good'
coarse bittersweet love

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beauty image box
soundless drape shadow weight light -
birds in lucid flight

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saint valentine tells
wintry envelope blankets
soon to melt and warm

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hold as a vessel
composing space for what is,
for precious and plain

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affection for you
like water and all its ways
current and silence