tanka cluster

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 burning and burning - a scarlet dahlia

when i should be asleep - watching television

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beyond 3a walking up and down the stairs

a neighbor's argument heard through the walls

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quite drowsy at this time

trying damn hard to weave words into poems

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mums - cosmos - honeysuckle - and red maples

making new senryu out of Issa's haiku

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over romanticization - waiting 

for the hamburger i ordered to arrive tonight

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my bathtub faucets need replacing ...

Friday morning - i stay in my bed all day

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tonight young men passing through courtyard

on the futon fighting this drowsiness 

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