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50 HAIKU & SENRYU
by Alan Pizzarelli

twilight
staples rust
in the telephone pole

light rain
on the young tree
a strip of burlap ... flaps

bending back
... along the railroad track
... ... tiger lilies

fading across the grooves
... of a glacial rock
... ... a bird's wet footprints

... driving
out of the car wash

... ... clouds move
across the hood

at the produce stand
... a kid with a baseball
... ... plays catch with the awning

at short stop
between innings
sparrows dust-bathing

in the supermarket
the spinster smiles
at the cucumbers

the gas station man
... points the way
with a gas nozzle

in the building's shade
a man winds up
the barking dogs

"I'm serious!"
he shouts
wearing a pinwheel hat

the rubber band man
stretches in-between
his sidewalk acts

carried from the car
the ventriloquist's dummy
looks around

late in the evening
a midget hoses the sunflowers

before the fireworks
... fireflies

on the bright marquee
a man's shadow changes the letters

done
the shoeshine boy
snaps his rag

nightfall
horse chestnuts hit the parked car

starry night
the jeweler closes
the folding gate

morning twilight
a truck driver gently unloads
sacks of clams

hottest day of the year
a breeze in the distant treetops

it's here!

the tattoo'd man
walks onto the crowded beach

drop of ocean
in my navel
reflects

the amusement park

spinning cotton candy
the girl with the teased-up hair

the taffy pullers
... ... the taffy pullers
the taffy pullers

skee ball
the kid with a fistful of tickets
wins a plastic bubble pipe

the setting sun
lights the top
of the high striker

on the merry-go-round
that empty blue bench

above the arcade
a yellow moon flashes
through drifting clouds

the ferris wheel turning
into the fog

backstage at the theater
ordering everyone around
the puppeteer

sudden rain ... reeled in ... on the wash line ... the doll's clothes

across the tightrope goes the star of the flea circus in a pink tutu

squinting
to read the sign
"optician"

in the tv store
on all the screens
cloned sheep

reaching for
the wind-up toy
it rides off the table

the dog runs after the stick
i pretend to throw

the visiting mother-in-law
re-arranges the furniture

far down the railroad track
... the brakeman's lantern
... ... gets lost among the fireflies

the fat lady
bends over the tomatoes
a full moon

buzzZ
... slaP
buzzZ

indian summer
the acupuncturist brings his cactus
back outside

in the stream
... a shopping cart
fills with leaves

with no money
... i go
... snow viewing

in the empty concert hall
the sound of radiator pipes

snow falls from trees
... rumble
of passing boxcars

leaning on the car fender
winter mountains

snow blows off the paper birches
nobody cares

tonite
nothing to write

but this

a spark
falls to the ground
... darkens

that's it

All poems copyright © 2006 by Alan Pizzarelli