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Author Archives: andrewwhiting
Man writes whilst in a hurry Continue reading
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Tagged meh enough tags, poem, stoner haiku, time limit, write in a rush
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Walking along Rt. 580, rustling foliage mimicking rising and falling road noise. Continue reading
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Tagged country roads, death, decay, peace, roadkill, spiders, webs
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The Great Paint Off: Contacted Labor vs. Nature Continue reading
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Tagged beautiful, blue tape, handyman, Lampasas river, nature, painting walls, walks
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A day out in the Texas hill country. Continue reading
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Tagged family homes, light pollution, milky way, putting out fires, stargazing
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Dark poems for a dark evening Continue reading
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Tagged cold front, concealment, habit, homelessness, immunization, sort of
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Fall deepens, as off-kilter emotions rebalance. Continue reading
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Tagged exhaustion, October, recovery, sleep, still surreal, stupor
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The Trouble With Words
Tell me, how does one write poetry in a language so sorely lacking in words as English? How does one compensate for the absence of a word describing that feeling of destiny when a cute girl with curly hair and … Continue reading
A couple and their cats endure high levels of unnecessary stress. Continue reading
Suddenly the sea is not so frightening compared to this burning hull. Continue reading
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Tagged cutting ties, familial relations, irresponsibility, Leaving, moving
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Sometimes what hurts worst are the things we expect. Continue reading
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Tagged disappointment, insane, mendacity, selfish, unreliable, untrustworthy
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One feels himself faltering as constants become surreal. Continue reading
Clouded morning, slow moving spectre, the reflection of anxiety. Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, indirection, mind state, subconscious, Wasting time
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Titularly challenged
A memorable day spent shepherding smaller humans Continue reading
Packing resumes as thoughts of travel in futurity arise. Continue reading
A day trip proves more stressful than necessary Continue reading
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Tagged birthday weekend, daytime cold remedies, girlfriend, too sick for tags
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The heat breaks, summer dwindles like a candle running short on wick. Continue reading
Poems exploring the trampoline-like effects of trampolines Continue reading
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Tagged adult, dodge ball, exhaustion, trampoline, weightlessness
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Alcoholic considerations Continue reading
Forsaken titles
Eschewed by poets, haiku try mightily Continue reading
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Tagged amulet, dervish, kerbey lane, pat benetar, phylum, septum
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A group of haiku resist creation. Continue reading
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Tagged confidence, dissatisfaction, second guessing, Unemployment, writing process
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A house empties of things and animals Continue reading
Shrinking timelines as abandonment draws near/ peace disappears Fragmented like familial divides, tributaries
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Tagged daily, division, haiku a day, moving, short notice, stress
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Beloved infant born beyond the vast desert as wide as friendship
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Unwelcome tenants
Mind revels Arcadian views winding down Contemplate full vacuum bags stinking like mildew Fallen five years into wild disrepair, frame sings its scars
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Tagged cherished views, dilapidated, homesickness, housing market, the ends of eras, townhouse
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At the vet
Man watches money evaporate in his vet’s front office. Continue reading
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Tagged antibiotic, cat hospital of Austin, cats, dental work, expensive, veterinarian
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American Politics
Logic like sarin, perverted morality meeting death with death Representatives of disregard for public will elected to kill
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Tagged congress, international affairs, limited bombing, Obama, sarin, Syria
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Productivity booming, the work is slipshod, Insufficient Marking on stories borne within a foreign mind, Sanguinary notes
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Tagged editing, haiku a day, lacklustre, massacre, perfectionism, writing
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The light from Sol falls ever more slanted, heat dissipates Long shadows, browned oaks and green fences, Lawn’s vacant patches Intensity personified as Spanish, playing with slice
Sunday, absent Sunday
Leaving notes to inconsiderate neighbors, Wipe shit from shoe Disgruntled elderly Asian man fears broken window A habit made of caring for abandoned cats, Annoyed but content
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Tagged Austin plastic bag ban, dog waste bags, haiku a day, sucking at tennis
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Line break
Arbitrary enjambment/ Surp rise!
Morning sun, shimmering tepid waters of Lake Austin Sleep in blocks of ten minutes/ morning escapes Shaking loose seventeen syllables, free poet
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Tagged diversify, English haiku, lake Austin, poem a day, poetic structure, snooze alarm
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Fall ’09
Life, or a series of unrequited sentiments, will reward patience Semesters begin and distant memories swell like adulation
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Tagged adulation, daily haiku, poetry, romance, university, unrequited sentiments
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As storms without rain turn to weeks sans internet tranquility mounts The world’s worst roommate, oh so close to out the door–– good goddamn riddance
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Tagged daily haiku, internet, nature, riddance, roommates, tranquility
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This evening’s show lightning in the distance stretching like branches Near-black violet cast off by white-hot flashes, electric blue bolts
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Tagged daily haiku, evening, hot flashes, lightning, nature, show, thunderstorms
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At the range
Wicked slice today–– I hope no one was pelted when some cleared the fence Isn’t fifteen feet of elevation equal to ten yards’ distance?
Chester’s Next Big Day Out
Continually biological process deplete bank account After that abscess I am weary of eclairs, any yellow gels The old golf swing has lost some power, but at least I still hit the ball
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Tagged daily haiku, golf, haiku a day, infection, out of practice, veterinarian
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Like tennis, only easier and more painful
Successfully played racquetball for the first time, despite being late And I only hurt my elbow, shoulder and chest, So now I need ice
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Tagged daily haiku, haiku a day, injury prone, Racquetball, social tardiness
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Still Sunday out West so technically it is posting on schedule Winning doesn’t count if you sucked while doing it call me unsporting
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Tagged bowling, competitive spirit, daily haiku, deadlines, golf, time zones
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Half-hearted titles
Cloudy expansesand Vietnamese noodlesmake relaxing days An infected woundover kitty’s right eye drainsmore than one expects More than anyoneTexas heat really loves summer,hopes it never ends Trees shift in dry airand sway like wavering thoughts,idyllic midday
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Tagged abscess, daily haiku, Pho, poem a day, wavering
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Sleepy Fridays
Got to bed early just to wake to construction at absurd hours OK––two days now? Meh, can’t blame the guys in the unbearable sun Small cups of coffee help keep those jitters from hands, legs, arms and shoulders
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Tagged coffee, construction, daily haiku, jittery, Texas heat, up early
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Musing upon crepuscular rays
Striated layers of smoke spanning the room’s width–– small Sargasso Sea Recall the things unchanging like first day crowds, the smell of the bus [A shorter haircut years ago might’ve paid off]
Time for BBhaiQ
Passports, art and ass, successfully applied for and looked at by three Stomach beckons forth, “Fill me with brisket and sauce!” The poet abides
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Aprolific
It’s just hard to write, spending seasons repressing loss perpetual
Summoned to Travis County Courthouse
Hundred and five bucks for court costs on a ticket? It’s just paperwork!
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Tagged bureaucracy, court, fines, haiku, inconvenience, Travis County
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