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Published in Cattails: Premier Edition: January 2014

http://www.unitedhaikuandtankasociety.com/37=134.html In  Darkness  and In Light: A Colaboration Sergio Oritz , Puerto Rico Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan I was the sin, a wild horse galloping from the horizon— everything I saw was spoken into her ear she was a tightrope walker, the enduring smell of a snuffed candle— facing a certain wind she was always in danger now that I'm done with the malicious idea of what is eternal, it is easy for me to look back at what’s destroyed we stand in a hall full of exits reeking of invisible tremors and bloated corpses birds covet the seeds of the honey locust— I don’t protest as she lays me down on the cold, bitter ground certain losses are irreparable— hard seeds in a field made fallow by a fire set long ago wounds hollow and unrecognizable— the husks of ships, sheets of dark water ghosts of what has been lost leaves shift as we fade into a pattern of grass and shadow, return elated and haunted to a dark sunrise by the ocean the f