Scott Metz


some haiku



where the ocean ends caterpillar wind

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she stepped on the moth
but it got up
and conquered the forest

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the paper factory
     tossed into a web
of complicity

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what i’ve drawn in the center might be existential wind

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i
hold dusk’s breath
until i
hear drums

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factory lights
migrating
towards me

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when i have
to be a crow
on main st.

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the sound of an airplane
evaporating inside
the shadow of an earring

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mossth

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why did you become a pigeon gray dream


Scott Metz was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1976. From 2003 to 2006, he lived in Tsuyama, Okayama, Japan. ant ant ant ant ant #9 (Chris Gordon, ed., Winter 2009) was devoted entirely to his work and is his first substantial collection, A Sealed Jar of Mustard Seeds. He is currently the editor of Roadrunner, co-editor of MASKS, and the blogmaster of troutswirl for The Haiku Foundation. His haiku can be found at lakes & now wolves. He currently lives in Toledo, Oregon, where he teaches Writing and Literature.

 
 
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