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night haiku

drifting
through
the night
a cloud
of crisp
bright
leaves

drizzle haiku

drizzle
dull
brown
leaves
slowly
falling 

cloud haiku

small
wall
tall
tree
a cloud
floats away
from the moon

fly tanka

I killed a fly
with Hölderlin’s poems,
and read on.
Und es starben
noch andere viel.

spider haiku

a spider
out in
the rain
walking
drowning

willow haiku

autumn
sounds
a willow’s
twigs
fade
in the
wind

time tanka

This mind
is all there is
to time,
some memories
looking ahead.

heron haiku

on a
thick layer 
of roadside
shrubs
a heron
walking
on
the
moon

Hiei-zan

Paths above Kyôto.
Fudô Myôô.
Incense near a temple in the woods
like an errant monk on slippers. 

Hiei-zan is impossible.
A dream
from which one has to wake oneself
when getting stuck again.

shade haiku

sitting
in the
shade
remembering
seeing
two crows
eating
a dove