"Midnight, Map, Soak, Retreat" - Four 1 Minute OneWord Hay(na)ku Poems

MIDNIGHT



Midnight
oil slick,
weather high emit.

Bright
ventricles fire,
laze us off,

grass
fed buffalo
fallow, light beginning;

spring
insists midnight
is day expired.


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Map
of wonder,
world of you,

Map
of sudden
openings, tricks, unlockings.

Map
of the
heart -- where am

I
under your
power? Where archery?


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SOAK



Soak
rocks, soak
stones across fields.

Soak.
Soak rice,
husks of self.

Soak
off padded
beginnings, endings -- wish.


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RETREAT



Retreat
into paradise,
yourself at last.

Re-treat.
Be sweet
saturn expired, silk,

heavy
petting in
the dark, feathers.

Retreat
into what
you were before.

Repeat
the sound
of never more.


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