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sleeping bear
Kurt Westley
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sleeping bear
copyright © 2015 Kurt WestleyISBN 978-1-936848-51-5
Red Moon PressPO Box 2461Winchester VA22604-1661 USAwww.redmoonpress.com
cover photos: the Chauvet cave bearChauvet-Pont-d’Arc Caveused with permission
first printing
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To my parents,Robert E. and Patricia S. Westley
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sleeping bear
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the only witnessa crow takes his darknessdue north
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dripping gundog —Basho’s cormorant?
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woodpecker’s reflection taps:no flow of time for Siddhartha —
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mortal’s winter —shoveling laughterof the gods . . .
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rodeo clowndenying Taurushis Shylock surge —
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still fuming over lost pay circus clown chasing a monarch butterfly
dozing atop rusty stake
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dozing atop rusty stake clinging to muddy horseshoes Buson butterfly
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windshield fly finallyescapes after 40 miles —who will he know?
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on a flowerboxI paint, two red antswarring on a victory rose
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I am growing old . . .blood-filled mosquitohums on my blank page
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dragonflyon a floating soda straw —Bodhidharma?
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rainy twilightfireflies flickering withinempty rabbit cage
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singed caboose spider scaling on his back bearing autumn sun
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owl talons snaggingcaboose’s railingon a snowy night
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haiku eye of sightless snowman — sun-blinking puddle
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shooting star gone
screech owl’s only eye closed
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Unnerved —a slew of starlings’eyeson the bicycle thief
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sputtering mower — alleged thief cutting grassin chilly drizzle
only a few drizzly seconds
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before temptation for freshly-stocked trout
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Sunset streamminnows disappearing two by two . . .
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peering
out half-submerged
snapper shell tinyof flip-flop
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over cloud-hidden salamander
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over cloud-hidden salamander
bare foot stirring the whole Milky Way
radiant red leaf floating alone in the universe
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abandoned hillside hut homeless man shivering beneath blanket of shattered stars
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abandoned hillside hut homeless man shivering beneath blanket of shattered stars
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New Year:full moon,still, I’m a bodhisattva of errors —
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full moon:snow-covered Buddha peeringover tallest windbreak hedge
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snowdrifts foaming to darkened barn’s knotholes goat’s curious eye
sleet-crusted knothole tiny owl’s heartbeat ticks down the universe
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snowdrifts foaming to darkened barn’s knotholes goat’s curious eye
sleet-crusted knothole tiny owl’s heartbeat ticks down the universe
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sleet pounding the early shift cook’s rusty bicycle
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shivers on lifeguard chair
empty snakeskin gusty winds
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hurled by tornadic winds exposed rattlesnake spirals himself into a new planet
Caked with dust coiled diamondback barely shaded by coughing scarecrow
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hurled by tornadic winds exposed rattlesnake spirals himself into a new planet
Caked with dust coiled diamondback barely shaded by coughing scarecrow
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Deluge —arguing violentlywith resurrected scarecrow
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exhausted by words his angry hands begin planting red peppers
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An ominous growl from where a dying gardenis being swept
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raw first light sparkling coyote tooth dangling on a barbed wire fence
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blood moon insomniadogs ragged, rattled red fox
snoring zoo gorillas a few feet away sparrows sipping rainwater
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snoring zoo gorillas a few feet away sparrows sipping rainwater
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snoring bear —snowy branches dripping with oozing berries . . .
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inner-city crowperched on rimless backboard,Nightfall —
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Kurt Westley (b. 1957) has been writing haiku & other poems for over forty years. He started writing haiku shortly after obtaining a copy of H. G. Henderson’s An Introduction to Haiku and the four volumes of R. H. Blyth’s Haiku. His favorite author, the Beat novelist & poet Jack Kerouac, is also counted as a huge haiku influence. His perpetual (and perhaps unattainable?) writing goal is to write “my own one perfect haiku” which is the same as Sisyphus chasing the Bashō frog . . .
He is a regular contributor to the Shiki Monthly Kukai. Some of the poems in this volume have appeared there; ‘only witness’ first appeared in Acorn 29, and ‘sleet pounding’ first appeared in Modern Haiku 46.2. His chapbook Bashō’s Cormorant was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in 2013.
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