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#24 Haikuish sashimi tataki ktanka

tataki = haikuish with place
sashimi = haikuish but not a definite place
ktanka = like a tanka
*FF = foto / photo

I wouldn't mind if anyone reading these would comment which ones they like.

805 Your Swedish / smile — cigarette tucked / behind one ear [232a] *FF posted on facebook 9/21

806 Over this grey-/ haired crowd — one ancient / voice commands [229a]
807 Empty before the / reading — a certain sense of / anticipation [229b]
808 Red sky in / the west — old legs turn / to go east [229c]
809 Blond curls over / smooth skin — making me / feel older [229d]
810 Well-worn faces — / youth does not support / ancient wrinkles [229e]
811 Four hundred / pages of poems — a life still / unfinished [229f]
812 Does everyone / mumble — are my ears full / of deaf wax [229g]

813 Blind-deaf-numb / nothing left to feel / save your hug [230a]
814 Which faith to / follow — so much baggage to / leave behind [230b]
815 Mountain ash / ripens — waxwings will get drunk / come winter [230c] *FF?
816 Sayonara — / only one way among many / to say farewell [230d] (rethink? my way to say farewell forever?)
817 Silver dollars weigh / down pockets — a good belt... / priceless [230e]
818 Hymnal open — joy overcomes his trembling voice [230f]

819 This spirit / wall — only death can pass / through it [231a]
820 What dialog / persists — between the speechless / and the deaf [231b]
821 Bones arranged / for a hundred years — we're / still here [231c] *FF

822 An unknown / language floats in the air — / familiar scents [174a]
823 Vegetables and / fruits — the hungry young man / buys a necklace [174b]
824 Meat on a / stick — a loaf of bread / but not you [174c]
825 Clouds hold back / the rain — the village wilts / and sweats [174d]
826 Crossed eyes — / so much dies without / a word [174e]
827 Eyes closed / in a dream — after the / rains — rainbow unseen [174f]
828 This silence / weighs too much — neither / dares to speak [174g]

829 Ceviche / por el malecón — música de / los zanates [175a]
830 América lead / by a vengeful vampire — Colossus / at Twilight [175b]
831 From afar — / echoes of Nero playing his / public [175c]
832 A voice floats / over Sunday's city — pealing / church bells [175d]
833 Birds rest / silent — too hot to / sing at noon [175e]
834 The dog begs for food — I fill up my coffee cup [175f]
835 Two girls speak / a foreign language — tourists / from Oxford [175g]

836 Clothes drying — when clouds gather — yelling and pissing [176a]
837 A stuffed / penguin and a duck — love among / the zinnias [176b] *FF?
838 El pato y la / pinguina — amor entre los / matrimonios [176c] *FF
839 Thunderclouds clap — sunshine on the swimming pool [176d]
840 Clouds gather — / Please don't block the / sunset! [176e]
841 On Sunday — / even the chatter seems / restful [176f]
842 A pool of water cool at first — warming with the sun [176g]
842 Zanates come / home to roost — tell each other / about their day [176h]
843 Shimmer of light on water — where is the moon tonight [176i]

229,230,231 [9/18] 232a [9/20], 174 [6/2 in CR], 175 [6/2-3 in Quepos], 176 [6/3]

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