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by Anselm Hollo
follow that airplane
of course I’m high this is
an emergency
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giant Scots terrier
I thought I saw was known as
Taxicab Mountain
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brown photo legend
“serene enjoyment” they suck
pipes bones crumbled back
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night train whistles stars
over a nation under
mad temporal czars
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round lumps of cells grow
up to love porridge later
become The Supremes
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lady I lost my
subway token we must part
it’s faster by air
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“but it’s our world”
tiny blue hands and green arms
your thought in my room
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sweet bouzouki sound
another syntax for heads
up to the aether
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in you the in moon
its rays entwined in my mind’s
hair hangs down right in
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viewing the dragon
there they ride slim through my dream
Carpaccio’s pair
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slow bloom inside you
the mnemonics of loving
incessant chatter
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far shore Ferris wheel
turning glowing humming love
in our lit-up heads
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switch them to sleep now
the flying foxes swarm out
great it’s flurry time
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wind rain you and me
went looking for a new house
o the grass grows loud
From Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2001. Originally from his book Haiku, published in 1968.
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