marlene mountain 
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  [5 w/hiroaki sato] 
  1980-1985 
one-line linked haiku number one march-october 1980
in winter rain
in winter rain we kiss dry my suitcase closed 
  a dream from fifteen years mother chasing me through corridors 
  no cure for anything only magic how you go down come up 
  sly one the paths you've found to my heart 
  your pen out of ink the poem left unfinished 
  unable to touch you pull my leg 
  before breakfast showering i swallow you 
  clouds drift your blue sock under the bed 
  200 million of you swimming 
  will you skip town if i am late this month 
  you wouldn't know the valley now i am alone in a circle of heat 
  drunk with another with long lenses we shoot the moon coming full 
  cave mouth the triangle again fills with dew of the night 
  inching toward me from your garden the 'hairy caterpillar' 
  moon dark at the gate we wipe vanilla ice cream off your pants
  the party without you goosed 
  your head turned a mole i hadn't seen 
  awake before you first frost on the sugar maple 
Frogpond 4:1 1981
one-line linked haiku number two october 1980-april 1981
outside the window
all i have old who once wore these jeans 
  second joint passed around frost still frost 
  'form is form and emptiness is emptiness' 
  autumn evening after splitting wood his wedge 
  cold rain loose change collecting in a hidden mason jar 
  calling her son forest unmarried woman in the woods 
  his path to the bathroom to the juke box 
  'life hard' not zen not haiku she says to blinding snow 
  you patted me as i made pate alone tonight the oysters 
  nothing kinky she warns the new lover 
  kochi's black rocks i was so young at thirty 
  love is bigger than sin states the pope 
  how many zen monks to screw in a light bulb 
  cigarettes quitting almost 
  friday night too tired to delight in it 
  embraces of konarak '. . . nothing as within and nothing as without' 
  tho instructions with the new diaphragm are in plain english . . . 
  what i hold onto in these times tsuki and yama 
note 
  tsuki and yama japanese moon and mountain 
Frogpond 4:2 1981
one-line linked haiku number three june 1981-may 1982
of nature
of nature: today's short sudden rain ending spring
  two in my life one treated me good she says and he's dead 
  within the shadows the hard edge of a hard shadow 
  after six hours she removes the dead sperm 
  how much does your ex get 
  you mop and i'll split wood 
  naked in the beer 
  queen's palace tied heads blown off 
  snowed-in imagined sounds of coitus 
  last day of the year we gather wood to burn without you 
  paper bag the shape of a fifth drifts across the parking lot
  no she says we'll sell the mercedes fire the driver and you learn to fuck 
  egg counter woman with 2 screaming kids husband laid-off 
  men have nothing to say to which he replied we've said too much already 
  equinox to come home to the budding moon 
  way back virgin meant unmarried 
  the world to cuss, grass seed to sow the talk at work of pink slips 
Wind Chimes #8 1983
one-line linked haiku number four february 1984-april 1985
how come mom
'how come mom' in thin rain 'everyone we know is 
  poor' 
  androgyny like yin yang bad joke on a woman 
  first spring moon hair not just punked but dyked 
  he pulled out still i worry 
  family woman boy cat dog hen 2 goats 
  tchaikovsky's 5th on fm the heat 
  quarter moon water in my belly 
  biker's nothin free it's ass gas or grass 
  two men discuss how they wash dishes 
  4.8 billion expected to fit neatly into feminine into masculine 
  jesus said i have come to destroy the works of the female 
  a neighbor calls his cows hathor of long ago remains silent 
  the empty nail on the wall by the bed where your pants hang 
  foot of the mountain the pope lies about the rights of women 
  poem notebook full of statistics pull of the changing moon 
  at his reception our talk of white male 
  america a rape every 3 seconds 
  through the pines to the coven circle 
Wind Chimes #17 1985
one-line linked haiku number five july 1988-october 1989
in the middle of nature 
  
in the middle of nature you open my shirt and kiss 
  
  all week bird-watching i've dreamed of being eaten 
  ceiling now purple above the bed my toes on the moon 
  love bites turning into bruises 
  blues program opens with a cum bucket song 
  if there were a tongue just above the penis 
  moon in june too romantic for my mood 
  it's never over even after i sing 
  slow rush of nature through my body 
  with the coming of spring will i still want you 
  there was a time booze form or sex washed troubles away 
  male fantasies of female fantasies of male fantasies 
  my-ongoing-male-put-down slowly my legs part for your mouth 
  sleeping together wasn't what i intended 
  no blue moon in a woman's calendar 
  the door key rehidden 
  with so little rain forest left our impermanence
  i love my sense of humor or is it fuck sex
  wonder what's become of summer's albino wren
  
Lynx winter 1989/90
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