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Haiku-a-day
Detail of the statue of Giuseppe Verdi by Enrico Butti in in Parma Italy in springtime.

The path is well known,
the orbit and the orbited,
eyes closed and spinning.

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Detail of the statue of Giuseppe Verdi by Enrico Buttiin in Parma Italy in springtime.

Am I out of time,
is morning music enough,
rewritten, sung strong?

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A view of an intricately decorated ceiling in a castle in Parma Italy depicting a gold sun surrounded by branches of a flowering tree.

When we admit love,
the understory wakes up,
poems are written.

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Yellow sunburst lichen growing on a astle wall in Parma Italy.

Stars on top of stars,
the lives we don’t understand —
breathing in and out.

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Two arched windows above old olive oil barrels in a castle basement in Parma Italy.

Windows become eyes
lit by the green valley light,
barrels become cheeks.

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A closeup of a red poppy bloom in springtime in Parma Italy.

The poppy calls for
pointing for someone to see
spring fields lit with red.

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The shadows of a man and woman walking on a path at night with lights blurred and another couple up ahead of them, walking, blurred, in Parma, Italy.

Big Dipper above,
roses in bloom, we’re a pair —
say goodnight, goodnight.

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A view of a solitary house in the Emilia-Romagna region on a clear spring day.

The day is open,
like a sheet of velvet grass
and hills that shelter.

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A seagull floats against a blue sky in front of colorful buildings in Lerici, Italy.

The gull catches wind
in the colorful village,
just in from the sea.

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A view looking up at the interior of the dome of the Rotonda di San Lorenzo in Mantua, Italy.

In the quiet light
caught nine centuries ago —
dome, gold like Venus.

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A statue of a woman outside at the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy.

An ear to the past,
an eye to the blue-skied day —
I keep my secrets.

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A view of the sky above a cloister of the Benedictine monastery of St. John the Evangelist in Parma, Italy.

The same square of sky
over prayer and displacement,
for four centuries.

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Statue of a sheep under blue sky and light clouds in front of the Ducal Palace of Parma.

I just need the sun,
the moving sky above me,
and something to trust.

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A view from a castle wall of the Emilia-Romagna in springtime.

The Sunday sky gleams,
laid out like we intended,
blue sinks in to green.

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A plaque on the ground in Lerici, Italy from 1905 with the words on it in Italian: "Oh traveler who passes by in a hurry, stop for a moment, pick a wild flower and say a prayer."

We four travelers,
together by the blue sea,
making our wishes.

"Oh traveler who passes by in a hurry, stop for a moment, pick a wild flower and say a prayer."

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Memorial votive candles lit for those who have died, Parma, Italy.

The future will ask:
did you light candles for us,
think of us at all?