THIRTEEN POINTS IN HAIKU

Winter

Number 1

King of Nothingness,
in Spring's dreaming tyranny
rules a dying flame.

Number 2

Sex, drugs and haiku
idle by on white petals
in swift, black waters.

Number 3

Sliced by warming air,
sunsets flicker distantly
on Spring's silent dew.

Number 4

Empty trees burst green,
from flowing Winter ice groans
to grim boiled Summer.

Number 5

Sword of Satan spins
Spring webs -- sleeping spiders lull
in sore, sand-wet eyes.

Spring

or

What if we built a

Japanese Zen garden and

only Buddha laughed.

Number 6

Reporting on the
weather in the heart of the
Abyss, Summer leaps.

Number 7

Mun taneik eem
eem eej-neem ik Jun tanu
Jeen eej-unat nee.

Number 8

On moon blossoms black
as blind lightning, Spring falls fast
to Summer sun-flight.

Number 9

Stars peek out whitely
from the bottom of the well;
let darkness shield thee.

Summer

Number 10

A blood moon burns
night water on a tent of
human skin -- Summer.

Number 11

Legless centipedes
drum the coming Autumn's morn,
glory deathly borne.

Number 12

White dragons smoking
at a pipe of Autumn leaf
withers your dream-thief.

Autumn

or

zen zaid, "What, me

worry?" and, "Evade the mirror.":

zoughtful each zecond.

Number 13

Flashing Winter wings
on blue shadows in snows bright:
hungry dragons watch.

-- Ken Gage (1969-2070)

composed on Winter's coming,

2 December 2001.

Post Script

Like a fool outrunning

death, I announce intentions

toward another round.