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Cherry Blossoms (anti-haiku) (Free verse) by middenHeap
In the time of the cherry blossoms, without warning
The sky turns leaden and opens
Slurries of western words, driven like snow
Swirl through the sullen petals
Turning the careful fractal economy of beauty
Into sodden masses of pink, run through with
Carbon from the exhausts of a million cars.
Neon glints in the wet bark, black
Beetles scrabble furiously to avoid drowning.
A ragged asiatic man reels in the road and ends sitting
With a thud against a cherry trunk
Blooded by obfuscation.
He splays his fingers on the ice-wet asphalt,
Palms sliding in the flower flesh
Considers speaking, weighing every word
A sacrifice against the precision of thought.
Instead he is silent, each sweet sentence
Receding away unspoken like the long rows
Of precisely-planted trees,
The fuel of reverie.
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Overall Rank: 1968
Posted: January 11, 2004 2:37 PM PST; Last modified: January 11, 2004 2:37 PM PST
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