marlene mountain
dadaku sequence
1976

 

 

 

tributes


1)
he's such a nice guy
you try to miss
when you swing

he said he was god
if i'd thought i'd have said
but not buddha

winter morning
i post some haiku
to hear from? press

duck!bill
paterpress
un quack ing

"hi ginn"
a shepardless sheep
sheepless

in paterson
the second snow
on the nose
of higginson

it's not enough
to get it out of 5-7-5
got to get it out
of paterson

2)
I didn't want to . . .
but the spiess thinks none can:
a five seven five.

Frog semi colon
and more sounds now ellipsis
the night period

-- ---;
- --- ---
--- --.

the whole book:
a seventeen syllable haiku:
in braille

If it's not one thing . . .
first, five seven five, and now:
multiple senses!

a u tum n af ter noo n
whe re the e pi lep tic fe l l
a fre sh gro u n d hog de n

telegraph operator
writing a haiku . . .
eyes closed, listening

3)

tao-li
why hunt
? did ?

you

hide

?

 

evelyn?

why did you?

tell us?

 

 

4)

hey michael
when you've finished
your parsnip
crank the press

fall, winter . . .
my ink running into mine
how's yourself?

not only
out of 5-7-5 &
paterson
an ox, no less

61 crates
of tomatoes
kwatz count-
ed them

5)
the third flake

c

a s n

n o

w

o

n e in

 

those damn beets
i can still feel them
hot

in a brown paper bad
anita
sprouting?

6)
those haiku
they take longer to hear
than to read

reading them
as i heard her reading time
. . . elizabeth's haiku

if he had seen her
perhaps there would have been
another portrait

7)
. . . watch out . . .
don't look around, i think there's
some . . . thing . . . behind . . . shh

he's over eighty
beaches, deserts, plains, forests
. . . what a gem

8)
most can't spell his name
it's said he came out of the core
of a tundra

water strider
runs
down
the
movie screen
(with a washer
woman)

after a raw fish dinner
he rattles back
to an orange

 

 

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