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Haiku first winter
my feet negotiate
their way between the sludge
and snow - all the time
taken in by what i see
this magpie that comes
singing on the roof
how bewildering the song
i wonder she is telling
my fortune in her tongue
grey hair
so many top
disappointments
grey hair
top
disappointment
the secretary's name
his wife wakes him
with a slap
leaves twisting
laughter of
mother and child
school new term
jap mother asks hubby
to cut back on sake
fish scouting
a splash in a hole where
the little boy's hand is
actor at psychiatric
ward - trying to get
back his old self
circus moved on
a child keeps an elephant
in his drawing book
at the bloom
the bee turns her back up
for the dip
homeless man
a leaf drops on a hole
in his blanket
so light the vulture soars
as fast as my bucket
from the dry well
dentist chair --
the borer filling
up the hole
prime at eton -
learning the skills of
moving stiff upper lips
