© 2007 Tobi Cogswell

Poem Masquerading As Haiku

You cup your palm tight

make sleigh bells out of beach glass

the ocean applauds

You touch sea creatures

they close their squiggly tendrils

the clouds obey you

You speak the round voice

live in the breath of today

fear does not haunt you

The shop of ocean

offers magic to tempt us

you pose on one knee

Honeycombs of clouds

call attention to the birds

we stare at the sea

You look to the trees

write prose against the smooth bark

the leaves publish you

You shield eyes from sun

run finger round the goblet

the scream splits the air

I am symmetry

we come from different worlds

I am the coward

Muted stripes on shirt

you see me running away

stripes and hair, and stripes

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