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Flaming Out
Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
after the battles
a tattered star flaming out
ashes to ashes
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Imprinted
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
imprinted
on the desert sands
her night tracks
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Three Variations on ‘Old’
clever old woman
hoarding sugar grain by grain
for her final cup
~~ ~~ ~~
In the old photo
they never finish drinking
from their tilted flutes.
~~ ~~ ~~
her silky old hands
caressing the holy book
coaxing forth secrets
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Tower
Bell tower, Templo de Santo Domingo, Zacatecas, México
ancient bell tower
a piteousness of doves
cooing grace and peace
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Betrayal
bitter fruit
sullying her lips
after their kiss
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Comfort
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Yuma, Arizona
In Lady Mary
downtrodden souls find comfort—
devils gnash their teeth.
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Whirling with Robert Frost
The first line of each haiku or senryu is taken from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
~~ 1 ~~
I could not travel
the bleak and nebulous roads—
blazing ways I sought.
~~ 2 ~~
Way leads on to way,
even when you’re short of breath
and the timing’s off.
~~ 3 ~~
Be one traveler,
not two or three, divided
in vision and touch.
~~ 4 ~~
in the undergrowth
a torch to cut through darkness
and welcome the light
~~ 5 ~~
in a yellow wood
a broken slab of tombstone
where three wraiths hover
~~ 6 ~~
I shall be telling
an opaque tale that will crush
the strongest of souls.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Balanced
Sunflower in an irrigated field, Southern Arizona
Sometimes paradise
is a sunflower balanced
between earth and sky.
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Slow Death
Old mowing machine, Clifton, Arizona
slow death by rusting
neglected mowing machine
after the harvest
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