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between breaths five owlsMichael O’Brien & Johannes S. H. Bjerg
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between breaths five owls© 2020 Michael O’Brien and Johannes S. H. Bjerg Cover painting by Elliott O’Brien
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between breaths five owlsMichael O’Brien & Johannes S. H. Bjerg
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April 2020
In this book the authors explore the parallel (haiku) as a vehi-cle for writing linked verse. This works quite simply with one writing “the first left side poem” and the 2nd writer writes the “right side poem” and goes on to write “the first left side poem” in the next parallel.
The poems were written under the still ongoing Corona Virus pandemic and may of course reflect this reality.
Michael O’Brien and Johannes S. H. Bjerg
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fresh snow
leftalone
not knowing
thewind carves
your death
aflute inyourface
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there’s a kindness
coldfront
in letting
ablackfingerprint
the sealie
insidethepotato
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its last breath
betweenowls
in a fisherman’s bucket
acrayontree manipulates
the universe
gravity
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sleep, knee,knowing
bourbonandcheese
you’rea vessel
thenight
for Soma
ametallicwomb
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someone’s teeth
thestones
making a lawn
followingushome atnight
grape hyacinth
divideusinto 4syllables
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in this cello suite
treeclowns
a fly crosses
yourblood
your field of vision
asapmoon
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night rain
testingavirus formasques
your only friend
youtouch
a mandala of ants
yourmissing face
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to get somedistance
likeawaterbird
you leavethe floor
youmakeapignoise
for a cloud
andwalkonwater
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preferring the night
oneofthesepills
to the left side
containsaself-playing
of your face
guitar
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on day ten
inthewoods
you beginto return
aheadofourgroup
the apples’ stare
ametaphor
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high sun
alonggonewinter
do dinosaur bones
leftafish
go pop?
inyourelbow
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the painmanagement course
morningposture
didn’t mention
thesunbalancing
daffodils?
onapole
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time’s hero
you’dprobably
the slow dripping
findShangri-La
of taps
underthecouch
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followingyour schedule
afterthestorm
you donothing
thereturningsound
again
ofswifts
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deep autumn
fromthewind
the back of the vase
youpick
still there
onecloud atatime
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an injectionwith hippos
leftturn
just tocounter
ajudgestirring
your allergy
saltwater
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autobiography
andthedeathpoem
you shout at the moon
youwrote
and nothing happens
waseatenbyfrost
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tinnitus:
morninghaze
that’s the whales
inanemptyfield
of yourinner ocean
amanexercising
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high sun
gradually
feeding apples
youbecome
to the river god
atundra
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your communication
morningheat
with the sea
abottleofmilk
is throwing stonesback and forth
leavingthebowel
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soft beasts
inaharpsichord
finding the wind
aglassheart sews
her new skin
afield ofmustard
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what we know
thehawk’sshadow
of the beyond
amemory
written ona dust mote
ofcavepaintings
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heavy w/ loose change
youcounteryourgene forcastingshadows
smacking wet cement
withone
a fish
forgrowingtorches
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lex Hollywood
abandonedrailway
we can shoot
betweenwillowandalder
the damn virus
cuttlefish
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wilting snapdragon
themitten’s
our belief
anentrance
in the killer’s retirement
totheshadowworld
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see,
jacksnipe
if we had tails
inthedistance
we couldchase them
apowerstation
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first signs of autumn
wavesofcotton
the silence
takeoff
of other people’s bodies
withtheBookofLeaves
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in the towerof clouds
lightningstorm
fish spawn
mostpeoplenotknowing
in the word ‘table’
thesmellofblood
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bird vision
yourinnerear
you leave the mustard
retains theholographicocean
in the fridge
thatbirthedyou
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the rainthat was your friend
washingday
aspires
wearingclogs
to sovereignty
acamel
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spitting at a fish
forthesake ofargument
you become the universe
letKevinC.wakeup
and order an egg sandwich
withathunderstorm
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the apples
thiscoolevening
in your ankles
inasmalltown
worm eaten
madefamousbyakiller
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on the first day of autumn
inadream
you forgive the neanderthals
youaddadog
for mother’s diabetes
toBruckner’s4th
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time travel
afterdissectingthetiger
that’s how you find
achildlookinglonginglyat
your lost socks
themoon
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cemetery at dusk
apressbriefing
you add blue
yetnoonereleases
to the soup
abutterfly
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come dance,
deepinthetallgrass
said the mountain,
foldingtime
in my tempo
youcounttoabillion
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withered field
perhaps into a patch of eyes
thegarden withthetrampoline
you sow your heart
survives
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closeto the sky
autumn fog
they usehorses’ hoofs
atreespeaks
to imitatethe sound of horses
foritself
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third degree
thistestprocedure
a leaf falls
revealsthepresence
in the night
ofstars
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it’s Thursday
ontheoutskirtsoftown
and you letthe wind
anemptybottle
sitin your place
inanemptyfield
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the bear’s posture
springwind
a tube of dissolvable
onemorekiss
b-vitamins
andI’muprooted
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one stepat a time
pinecone
falling
youtakeanumber
into the horizon
andwait
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a hundred plus moons
likeadog
the rangers finish up
yourshadowcomes
for the season
whenyouwhistle
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the shepherdof birch trees
wintermorning
slowly he carves
hangingoverthemoon
a flutefrom his femur
yourloneliness
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depressed
whatkindofecho
but you eat a salad
canyouevenget just in case
outofaduck?
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spring
weeatapicnic
and you
onthehillside
misplacethe rain
watchinghiddenbirds
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asked for i.d.
absentminded
you pull out
youcallout yourownname
a wedding photo
andanswer:No!
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strangehow thesespring hills
influenza
go up and down
youshout
like in winter
inaswan’sear
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the stench of death
tobesafe
in the appropriate box
hewearshisface
marking x
insideout
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his skin
darkmorning
madefrom stars
thelanguage
breathesladders
ofpotatoes
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