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The Tarts  

Answers  

 Answers

Me — wheee!  

Me — wheee!

The Sea Is History  

 The Sea Is History

Their Sex Life  

 One failure on
Top of another

TO THE CHOSEN ONE  

 HAND in hand! and lip to lip!

Haiku  

 The taste
 of rain
—Why kneel?

A bee  

 A bee
staggers out
 of the peony.

Solitary Observation Brought Back From A Sojourn In Hell  

 At midnight tears
Run in your ears.

Napped half the day  

 Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!

Old well  

 Old well,
a fish leaps--
 dark sound.

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee  

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

In spring rain  

 In spring rain
a pretty girl
 yawning.

Sparrow singing  

 Sparrow singing--
its tiny mouth
 open.

Haiku  

 Birds singing
 in the dark
—Rainy dawn.

Not very anxious  

 Not very anxious
to bloom,
my plum tree.

UPON BEING ASKED WHY I AM NOT WRITING  

 Too much gone wrong – 

No Muse, no song.

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Im going out  

 I'm going out,
flies, so relax,
make love.

How much  

 How much
are you enjying yourself,
tiger moth?

Society for me my misery  

 Society for me my misery
Since Gift of Thee --

Color As Beginning  

 Forget love 
I want to die 
in your yellow hair

Evening wind  

 Evening wind:
water laps
 the heron's legs.

Is Immortality a bane  

 Is Immortality a bane
That men are so oppressed?