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· Marooned on Moloka'i: Coconuts, Dreams & Death

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· Falling Off the Mountain (poems)

· Santa Cruz Sargasso, Berkeley Fog (poems)

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· The Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion (a short story)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part II)

· Everything you know is wrong...(part1)

· An Arrow for Amaterasu

· Outdoor Bob and the leaf-blower from Hell...


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· Obesity: To be or not to be?

· And now a word from Our Heavenly Host...

· Joseph Pujol, Le Petomane, star of the Moulin Rouge (1887)

· NorCal Coastal Cold Water Reflections, 1989/2007

· The Gold and Azure Frontier

· We the Pimples... (or) a Child's Garden of Constitutional Verses...

· Welcome to Californication, suckers!

· Confessions of a 'Yellow Fever' afflictee...


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· Find her in everything...

· Petrushka's Remorseful 5-Year Plan...

· The starward path: A tribute to Laika and Gagarin

· Hair today, groan tomorrow...comrade

· Merely a turn of the wheel...

· Crush depth

· The Doorway, twixt Heaven and Hell...

· Puddle Worms

· Happy Saint Valentine's Day Mass Accretion

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Sawtooth Haiku

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Light hearted bits of nothingness after the haiku style, jotted down in the Sawtooth Ridge area late one October evening (1974), after the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn (Peak) with trombone (no lie, we played 'FLIEGENDE WALKURE' on the summit) and too much hot Wyler's and rum. [A bit of historical background: The trombone is the modern ancestor of the medieval 'Sackbut' and despite the centuries of development hence, still bears a remarkable resemblance to its ancient forebear. It is simply a coincidence that after lugging a trombone to the uppermost pinacle of a 12,250 foot mountain peak and back, all you want to do is get your BUT in the SACK...]

Sunday, January 23, 2011


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Summit Verses for Trombone in B Flat



 

SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS
LIKE A SWEATER
COVERS HER BREASTS


MARMOT PELLETS
GREET US ON THE SUMMIT
A SPARROW LAUGHS TOO
 

GRIM AND BLEAK
MOUNT RITTER SITS AND GRINS
REMEMBERING LAST YEAR


DARK CLOUDS
MOVING OVERHEAD
JEALOUS GUARDIANS


THE SLOW TRIP DOWN
LIKE MELTING ICE CREAM
SUGARY GLISSADES


AFTER DINNER COLD;
YELLOW ICE AWAITS US
IN MORNING COOK POTS!

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(1974)
 

 

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Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on June 9, 2011
Haiku is another of my favourite poetry genres. Thank you for sharing these, Kalikiano. Love and peace,

Regis
Reviewed by Paul Judges
Reviewed on January 27, 2011
Excellent work.
Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on January 26, 2011
Wonderful writing sweet man..sure have missed you and your wonderful poems.....stay safe and well..Hugss
Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on January 23, 2011
You can say so much in haiku, and you did. -gene.
Reviewed by Lavendar Jazz
Reviewed on January 23, 2011
Sounds inviting...

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