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January,</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>2005</B></FONT></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="479" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 280 ><NOBR><div> New Year's Day</div> <div> the temple bell tolls</div> <div> same as yesterday</div> <bR> <div> vacancy</div> <div> a bird nest in the pine</div> <div> fills with snow</div> <bR> <div> wedding bells</div> <div> first day of forever</div> <div> has begun</div> <bR> <div> New Year's Day</div> <div> the traffic light changes</div> <div> from red to green</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> attic chest</div> <div> third generation</div> <div> toy soldiers</div> <bR> <div> winter chill</div> <div> no coo from this morning's</div> <div> mourning doves</div> <bR> <div> winter sounds</div> <div> his hammer</div> <div> her knitting         </div> <bR> <div> the neighbor's dog</div> <div> and an arrow of geese</div> <div> bark at the moon</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>_January, Senryu_</B></div> <div> snow storm</div> <div> supermarket aisles filled</div> <div> with homeless shoppers</div> <div> platform preacher--</div> <div> thank God the Lake St El </div> <div> arrives on time</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>  </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Owens Haiku"><U><B><IMG SRC="03b0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B></div> <div> <B> Back to  Owen </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="200411"><U><B><IMG SRC="02f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>Last Month                                             Mar-05</B></FONT><B> </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20053"><U><B><IMG SRC="0300e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>Last Year</B></FONT></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20041"><U><B><IMG SRC="03e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=382 BGCOLOR="#FFCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0aa8dfc3.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tahoma" > </FONT><I><B>Haiku </B></I><B>- February,</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>2005</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>The following haiku were part of  a poetry reading</B></div> <div> <B>that I participated in. I consider  these haiku to be </B></div> <div> <B>most representative of my work.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="450" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=BOTTOM HEIGHT= 336 ><NOBR><div> morning fog</div> <div> the creak of boats</div> <div> at anchor</div> <bR> <bR> <div> across tall grass</div> <div> summer's wind</div> <div> changes color</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Christmas services</div> <div> a cell phone rings out</div> <div> Handel's Messiah</div> <bR> <bR> <div> darkening skies</div> <div> a tugboat moves deeper</div> <div> into each wave</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> attic trunk</div> <div> my father's photograph</div> <div> wears my face</div> <bR> <bR> <div> children's hospital</div> <div> in distant fields he chases</div> <div> frogs and butterflies</div> <bR> <bR> <div> attic trunk</div> <div> grandmother's life </div> <div> in sepia squares</div> <bR> <bR> <div> downtown crossing</div> <div> we wait for a train</div> <div> to unzip the street</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Non-Haiku Reading</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="451" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 374 WIDTH="445"><div> damned with birth</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> and doomed to living</div> <div> death has found him</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  unforgiving</div> <div> a bastard fruit</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> of not known seed</div> <div> the sin of a  no name womb</div> <bR> <bR> <div> he remembered mocking laughter</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> and the tears that followed after</div> <div> till his spirit </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> dimmed forever</div> <div> and retreated to the tomb</div> <bR> <bR> <div> there he chose a fatal pleasure</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> a macabre fount of treasure</div> <div> where the solitary measure</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> was the need</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>  </B><B>  </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Owens Haiku"><U><B><IMG SRC="03b0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B></div> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006600" FACE="Tempus Sans ITC" ><B>Back to  Owen </B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="200411"><U><B><IMG SRC="02f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>Last Month                                             Mar-05 </B><A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20053"><U><B><IMG SRC="0300e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B> Last Year</B></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="20041"><U><B><IMG SRC="03e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT=" " ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>