Hai-KU!

Winter reveals

What was once hidden by summer’s

Great bounty and bloom

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Beds of lichen abound

Sotal snuggles ‘neath laurel

We shiver and sneeze

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Someone always breaks

The silence, limestone dishes

Today it was me

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Sunshine leaks through limbs

Prisoner escapes shackles

Seeks retribution

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I’m not inspired

By density or great mass

Or narrow pathways

Make my day