Archives :: Padma Jared Thornlyre

Mossbeard Haiku

Appeared in the Fall 2004 issue.

Clouds claw at pine-roots.
Nearly dry, a creekbed trills.
Mossbeard sits in fog.

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Mossbeard man wishes
On nose hairs, not eyelashes
On pyrite, not gold

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Low cello, mourning;
A sad, green man's tequila,
His slow tortilla.

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