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Old Man On A Balcony:
Views Of Monterey Bay
A moon in the sky After sunrise [a rare sight]; Seen it before, but -- A squiggly fractal-- the line of Monterrey's hills-- floats above the fog The cat licks its paws: I watch, three floors above: it Looks up straight at me Gay flamingo sings: "The sun rises and the world Is ablaze with Dawn" "Weep, weep!" cries a bird Lost somewhere in fog and mist. Sunrise with no sun. Fire on the mountain? No, the deer are still, tranquil: It must be sunlight The orange cloudbank: One bright touch in the grey sky Above a grey bay Dolphins in the bay Playing, sporting, having fun-- World without money! The weather bureau predicted a sunny day: All I see is fog After the fog lifts, A naked beauty: blue sky With buttermilk clouds Bay ablaze with light-- Tin-flash; silver; clear as gin-- After weeks of fog! Flock of gulls appears And suddenly -- disappears Going God-knows-where... White on white: bay lost, Mountains lost, bleached into white: A clean-cotton mist Pre-dawn, silence, then --: Out of unpulsating dark An unknown bird chirps. Bay like blackboard grey Monterrey lost in white fog Shortest day draws nigh While I slept they came: Two unexpected flowers Sprouting on the vine. Grey and pastel pink -- A water-color painting -- This light before dawn. Midnight Haiku
Mottled blueblack sky. Midnight Haiku #2
Black darkness only: Midnight Haiku #3
Dancing in the bay-- Gray sky and gray bay No division between them A dead dreary dawn Misty mountain tops Floating on nothing, it seems.. "Empty" space is full! Midnight Haiku #4
Dark, dark: no waves splash, No blue: just white-grey, Like dirty ice, the bay sneaks Out from under fog. "Sweet! Sweet!" sings a bird-- Old Ez in Virginia Heard one cry "Tulip!" The stone Buddha sits Still as the Eiger: silent... The waves crash and splash Lights across the bay White jewels scattered, shattered In a deep black box Purple, vermilion: Each part of the bay glitters And none is just blue "Chirp? Churp?" "Oot?" "Cheep!" "Oot!" Birds unseen, bickering --"Sweep?" -- Above, on the roof. I see just one tree The bay is invisible Fog, fog, endless fog Some waves cry "Terror!" Hitting the beach like boulders: Dark night: darker thoughts. Botticelli sky: No fog, no Chinese touches-- A Rennaisance day All is cloaked in fog The world seems empty, until -- Far off, a gull shrieks. Federal Crime
Clear blue bay at sunset |
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Movie Haiku 
Hannibal
Lecter, too, grows old Tequila Sunrise
A major coke deal -- King Kong
Can't blame the big ape: Honky Tonk Man
Addictions killed him, And Then There Were None
Unpleasantness and White Hunter, Black Heart
Arlen said it best: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
"Witchcraft" not spoken Unforgiven
Drunk sociopath Lady From Shanghai
Trial: Chinese drama: Stardust Memories
Woody's rage breaks loose: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Voodoo and courtrooms Intolerance
Those who would do good Bird
Did the junk ruin him The Outlaw Josey Wales
The killing must stop -- The Ghost and the Darkness
The whites see lions -- The Maltese Falcon
Seventeen long years Bus Stop
You can't discount it, Chimes at Midnight
Winter: Wind, snow, chill: The Eiger Sanction
Three times the Eiger |