2009-02-21

biochar?

to save the planet
carbon must be sequestered
from the atmosphere

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something's in the air

of my best ideas
 most were thought by someone else
older than myself

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purim

Winter carnivals
 predate modern religions 
 call them what you will

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chasing the wind

Chasing a sure thing 
 we give fickle tam a pass 
 flying to valle

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no handshake

 Dumbstruck with desire 
 no blood is reaching his brain 
 it's been diverted

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black archive

Snarky haiku fail 
 the test of civility 
 so they're unpublished

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demonic

an insistant voice
 twists the world towards his vision 
 his name is legion

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anti-bonding II

Our smallest failings 
 and petty hypocrisies 
 outrage teenagers

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anti-bonding

 Fierce in their outrage 
 teens mock our smallest failings 
 but can't see their own

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stuck in the past

bogged down in traffic 
 like Pharaoh's horse in the mud 
 feeling obsolete

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what's in a name?

Innocent blossoms 
 dare me to damn them as weeds 
 they believe they're flowers

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2009-02-20

19 Feb 2009

Movement in the yard 
 arrests me in my driveway 
 three deer, twelve turkeys

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venerable

distinctive hair growth
 marks the dominant status
 of the silverback

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some governments lie less

Tallying in wars 
 Obama's sober budget 
grants transparency

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aging

for a gorilla
grey hair in novel places
 marks his high status

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equanimity

High status is marked 
 by sprouting swaths of gray hair 
 among gorillas

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2009-02-19

connections

3 a.m. 'aiku
the world in a word-web binds
Hrothgar's scop humbled

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timing

sanglier loiters
in the highball's landing zone
bacon for breakfast

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altered states

jet-lagged rock climbers
hallucinate caribou
coming down at them

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reprieve

atop Makapuu
kind of glad the wind is wrong
don't have to try it

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meeting

To Looney's I go
to eat drink and be merry
to see long-lost friends

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homebound

at five thousand feet
big fat fluffy flakes of joy
mock us as we leave

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smoke

Impressive light-shows 
 grace the evening horizon 
when our forests burn

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solitary muse

Mid-week snow boarding 
 sleeping in an empty house 
 haiku come in floods

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storm-rider

Valentine's day: 16 to 50 
 inches hit the slopes last night 
 you might not like it

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post-holing

Chest-deep in powder 
 feeling my mortality 
 note to self: "snow shoes"

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psychotherapy

First named, then banished 
 fears that blossomed in darkness
shrivel in the light

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Sunflowers

craving atonement 
 he tried to bribe the living 
 the dead are still dead

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bucolic II

 Like punk-tinted sheep 
 azure mounds of rosemary 
 graze in my garden

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deterrence

 Buried in pigskins 
 suicide bombers will rot 
 denied paradise

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bucolic

Like punk-tinted sheep 
 azure mounds of rosemary 
 fatten in the sun

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t'shuvah

trust none who still breathe
 they're just full of surprises
not like the dead ones

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2009-02-18

Achilles' choice

Chasing Daniella
boys court immortality
or an early grave

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2009-02-17

reverent

Muffled by snowfall 
 even the chairlifts don't clank 
 ghosts ski in silence

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dainty

Snow dusts Diablo 
 like a monstrous confection 
 to entice Fenris

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not so skinny

 Something slithers past 
 confounding expectations 
 free-heel powder skis

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heads turn

 Beneath the snow crust 
 my beard holds a layer of air 
 keeping my face warm

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2/13/09

Cloudbase keeps dropping 
 runs I'd skied in falling snow 
 are lost in white-out

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phatty

Suddenly, there's wind 
 sometimes skiing straight downhill 
 groundspeed drops to naught

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deep powder

Since I'm snowboarding 
I believe I must have knees 
 but I can't see them

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luxurious

Powder keeps falling 
 where it was already deep 
 fat-marbled toro

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empty space

 Light shines from his ear
straight through from the other side 
 dude, put your plugs back!

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ski here now

 Shredding through powder 
 why would I pick up my phone 
 just to say it's good?

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calibration

Nothing personal 
 drivers scream death to traffic 
 all over Iran

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sparse data

Fossilization 
 is the rare anomaly 
 most carcasses rot

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utopian

Marx dreamed fervently 
 of an end to market swings 
 and of nation-states

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artistic influence II

In Basho's Japan 
those whom the poet disliked 
 disemboweled themselves

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in the stars

Taurus weds Leo 
 and the child turns out stubborn 
 whe would have thought it?

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Valentine's day on the slopes

Love is in the air 
 swirling all around my head 
 piling up in drifts

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just say "no"

Magical thinking 
 seems sense to most four-year-olds 
 and Republicans

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Powder day

  I dare not slow down 
 everything I've just knocked loose 
 would overtake me

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low art

Snarky poetry 
 bares its teeth elegantly 
in the black archive

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ski schooled

 munchkins blast past me 
 how do they zip such small pants 
 over such big balls?

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a change of air

Drizzle's much nicer 
 when you're up in the mountains 
 trading rain for snow

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synoptic

This book is creepy 
 reading Basho's poetry 
 he lives in my head

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hazards

Many skiers flail 
 their ski poles at eye-level 
 they should be impaled

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artistic influence

 In Basho's Japan 
 those at whom the poet laughed 
 performed seppuku

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chance encounter

 Drifting 'round the bend 
I meet a river otter 
 mutual surprise

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elastic boundaries

Projects get bigger 
 when the research will be done 
 by a grad student

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elasticity

Projects get bigger 
 when the research will be done 
 by a grad student

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ski cabin

Park in the garage 
 leaving cars in the driveway 
 frustrates the plow-man

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consumation

 metamorphosis 
 gave butterflies gorgeous wings 
 and frogs sticky tongues

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shared dream

Pre-dawn commuters 
 don't quite register the pain 
 they half-sleep through it

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random access

Searching for a key 
 tucked in yesterday's pocket 
 did I run laundry?

the sum of the parts

So many muscles 
 just to carve a graceful turn 
 each has its own ache

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broken ice

Three in the lift-line 
 "may I join you?" I inquire 
 suddenly, we're friends

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love

 Seeking to hold on
 it's destroyed by my hand's heat 
 one perfect snowflake

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saturation

Acres of flowers 
 each one no less marvelous 
 than one all alone

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saturation

Acres of flowers 
 each one no less marvelous 
 than one all alone

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externalities

 They count coal as cheap 
 because they discount the costs 
 of the damage wrought

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gifts

A keen aptitude
for war doesn't augur well 
 for life in peace-time

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uplifted

 wing to wing with hawks 
I circle in rising air 
 lunch will have to wait

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Paya

 Is the bright poppy 
 a metaphor for the brush 
 the elephant holds?

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my way on the highway

 Burdening the road 
 forcing passers to his right 
 cruise-control-tyrant

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storm clearing

luminous as stars
steam-plumes glow in stark relief 
 against slate-gray skies

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2009-02-12

capitalism amok

Like vast jellyfish 
 soul-sucking corporations 
 troll for our talents

care to talk about it?

Malign jellyfish 
 invade my unrestful sleep 
 drugged dysphoria

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twelve hundred feet

 Forty atmospheres 
 drives desalinization 
 and feeds the Dead Sea

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the party of "No"

 Doomed obstructionists 
 don't grasp our demand for change 
 their days are numbered

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tam tuesday

 Disorganized lift 
offered me no pause to breathe 
 'til i reached cloudbase

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the party of "Yes"

 Barack's stimulus 
 on time and under budget 
 there's change I endorse

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a time to hope

Obama's first day 
 our novel experiment 
 in good governance

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Varmints

Blotting out the stars 
 vast luminous jellyfish 
 give form to despair

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2009-02-07

3/6/09

Cops invest Oakland 
 as if we were under siege 
 why the riot gear?

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indulgence

skiing in powder 
 the devil take the hindmost 
 friendships take a break

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3/7/09 7 a.m.

The first rays of dawn 
 bounce off fog in the valley 
down there, it's still night

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8 a.m. 3/7/09

 Diablo's capcloud 
 already above the peak 
 bodes well for the day

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interests

Gaza's leadership 
 invested in misery 
disdain talk of peace

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2009-02-05

alpha male

 lounging by the fire 
 sending the young forth to hunt  
"bring back something fat"

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Sleep tight

 longer than a bus 
 swallowing cattle-sized meals 
 titanoboa

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beyond data

The one who studies 
 without imagination 
 has never grown wings

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2009-02-02

the party of "No"

For six years, the Right empowered Bush's excess now they just play dumb

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