senryu cluster

in this city   after a rainpour   loneliness walks quickly

detention center:   remembering his face   sepia photograph

friday night   under a vague moon   tea with whiskey

pleasure yacht   moored in harbor—divorce coming 

quite suspicious   mama's sharp glance   at dad

melancholy laughter   lonely laughter   some things the same 

graceful—late evening   a swan does its own thing

peeling potatoes   news on tv   forms background white noise

complex relationship   leaving  wine glass   untouched

crooked painting—woman's shadow   uninterested 

"more than just a birther"   pink   of cotton-candy

weekend tryst   opening and closing   of hotel doors 

computer left on   sublimated anger   seething under surface

darkness—wind pushing   a lonely carousel 

Ann of the Green Gables...i have this wild   imagination

tepid water   showering alone   with my shadow

bit of weed   in box   of newly-bought cigarettes

blooming nightshade   watching some man   pace courtyard

old willow-barrels—all my senryu   kept in storage

porch-side weeds:   grandma has way   making things lovely 

defending   a 'black widow'— full estate frozen 


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