Gregory Longenecker
| summer night his bicycle leans against his brother’s |
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| the things I think I can’t do without lunar eclipse |
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| afternoon light the plovers talk of leaving |
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| some days I just listen … mute swan |
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| oak limb – holding the sleep of nestlings |
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| shameless I keep looking at her first camellia |
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| the gospel according to a winter wren | |
| I wake to the smell of someone’s sorrow wildfire |
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| wet leaves the slippery path of memory |
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| morning the slow silence of a snail |
All poems copyright by Gregory Longenecker. They may not be used for any purpose without explicit permission.
These poems have been published individually in bottle rockets, Yuki Teikei Member Anthologies, The Heron’s Nest, Acorn, Under the Basho, Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Mariposa, and A Hundred Gourds.