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Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2
   
  Yoyoshi: Grace Notes - a Womanly Renga
       
  describing grace notes
in the hedgerow
goldfinches 		kk
  scent of wild-roses
leads my morning walk 		ey
  below the cliff trail
the ocean
breathes in waves 		ha
  a captain counts fathoms
in the narrow channel 		kk
  gossamer
released by the wind
to an open sky 		ha
  a wafer moon
in the cirrocumulus 		ey
  carefully
illuminated poems:
the ink stone now washed 		kk  
  grapes on her kimono
follow every move 		ha  
       
  one placed
a bit apart from others,
dewy stepping stones 		ey  
  a soft leather bridle slips
over the Arab's ears 		kk  
  calm
the pale pearl-faced woman
that lives inside me 		ha  
  after her cough,
a voice so naturally seductive 		ey  
  the silence amassed
behind each grass blade
a daybreak parting 		ey  
  the young scientist
awakes in a bat-filled cave		 kk  
  dreams dissolve
with the sugar crystals
in his tea cup 		ha  
  a warped world on
the spoon that ran away 		ey  
  Krakatoa's ash
turns a lightening moon
totally blue 		kk  
  echoes of geese
heard in the shadows 		ha  
  bones seen
penetrated, how fish sleeps
in the clear tank water 		ey  
  a vision of Liberty
balancing another life 		kk  
  new mother rests
a flowering peach branch
knocks at the window		 ha  
  long day ends
carpenters gather their tools 		ey  
       
  all night
raindrops from the leaking roof
in a metal pail 		ha  
  once upon a time, a gnome
spun straw into pure gold 		kk  
  plaits of her hair
unbound and streaming
bike for the two		 ey  
  space between their lips
disappears into a kiss 		ha  
  beyond the planets
what do aliens know
of this writhing in pleasure 		kk  
  why did Kierkegaard
break away from his fiancee ...		 ey  
  the road darkens
as the snowdrifts rise
on either side 		ha  
  two brothers drive a pick-up
across the frozen lake 		kk  
  aroma of cedar
fills the village shrine
for the Lady 		ey  
  a dusty gyroscope
in our childhood toy chest 		ha  
  from our barn
suckling sounds ... now
the foal staggers slightly 		kk  
  moist mud on her hand
cut potatoes planted 		ey  
  through the haze
the perfect roundness
of the Spring moon 		ha  
  a 78 record playing
on top of Old Smoky 		kk  
       
  folks see off bon-boats
that withdraw below
the heaving horizon 		ey  
  the reflection of fire
on the brandy snifters 		ha  
  he repeats. . .
he repeats stories
of his reckless youth 		kk  
  "and ... a river runs through it"
hot tears well up 		ey  
  swallowing
life rafts of pain pills
with sips of chill 		ha  
  a zephyr returns
changing everything 		ey  
  a queen proceeds
through white-hazed dogwood
peace offering ceremony 		kk  
  the stone frog covered at last
in soft new moss 		ha  

 

 
Started: 7 June, 2004
Completed:  12 December, 2004

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