1
Cracked Song For Dirty Boots

This tree

grows still

a child's mind

a bedroom window
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This house

this window

gone but for

frame's crater

now

once was

home memory's

red dirt
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O stand radiant-starred late afternoon

O stained stark shadows black frieze
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astonished stooped man

time's wee piss-boy

damp bunk-bed mattress fears
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O stand glazed from edges

gaze to bark

vine maps of escape.
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Iron shadows

impress long into

wet pit

sun shards

spy glass

throat sore
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cracked song for dirty boots 

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2
Older Age, Basho In Mind

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Road gets narrower

eyesight dims

even signs wave

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Basho's ghost

guides with ink

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HERE NOT HERE

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Can't ever cross

Rainbow Bridge

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Beneath it 

a billet of mist