senryu cluster

breakfast lady   draggin' this morning—work work work 

prostitutes   stop by for coffee—nearly 6 am

brewing coffee   dropped   my sleepiness in it

overnight shift   suddenly thinking of   samurai

dread at an end   father's dead child   discovered

swiftly flowing downstream   traces   of my time

out with friends   bowling drinking   and gossiping

white   of noon tombstones—i don't want to die 

sagebrush   desert burial   of yellowed bones

my monmon gone:  speaking to her   obituary picture 

*mother in Kouri-Vini


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