Selected Hokku / Senryu

by Joe Richey

mottled butterfly
alights on a rock
to roar

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ancient pond
polluted frog
belly up

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o star
o powerful western star!
are you a star?
or another big well-lit house
perched high in the foothills?

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songs to sway
between
the lines by.

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Sitting at an outdoor café
I am gunned down
by Chilean boys w/ sawed off broomsticks

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half asleep
in broken English
a good life you.

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who’s to say
the sky
can’t see?

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fireworks
five hundred light bulbs
fall from the sky

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small bamboo day
the sky
on a stick.