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Ten Thousand Haiku

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenanimals, cafe, cat, cat cafe, cats, chase, COVID-19, felines, haiku, palm, palms, pandemic, pets, poem, Poetry, slight, social distancing, white, windows Leave a comment

At the cat café
A slight, white feline chases
Palms on the window

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenart, conductive, conductive paint, COVID-19, digital humanities, electricity, fingers, Frankenstein, globs, haiku, paint, pandemic, poem, Poetry, social distancing, touch Leave a comment

Conductive monster:
Paint globs reading Frankenstein
With a finger’s touch

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenart, cinder blocks, COVID-19, green, haiku, head, mannequin, melting, paint, pandemic, poem, Poetry, prop, social distancing, spray paint, Styrofoam Leave a comment

Green spray paint melting
A Styrofoam mannequin
Head propped on cinder

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenautumn, brown, COVID-19, fall, favorite, foliage, green, haiku, high, hiking, increase, leaves, lost, low, pandemic, poem, Poetry, social distancing, trail, visibility Leave a comment

High green now low brown:
Trail lost under leaves, increased
Visibility

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenall while masked, cars, climb, climbing, COVID-19, haiku, haircut, kids, pandemic, parenting, pink, poem, Poetry, salon, slide, social distancing, sports car, wash hands Leave a comment

Kids salon: wash hands,
Climb into a pink sports car,
Get haircut, go slide

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28 November 2020Calvin OlsenCOVID-19, floating, front room, giggles, haiku, kisses, love, mom, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, social distancing, three-year-old, tickling Leave a comment

Three-year-old tickles
Mom with kisses, their giggles
Float through the front room

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenchange, clothes, couch, COVID-19, haiku, hoodie, imagination, orange, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, running, social distancing, space suit Leave a comment

My orange hoodie
Changes into a space suit
And runs for the couch

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenconstruction, construction paper, COVID-19, dad, feathers, gratitude, haiku, opening doors, pandemic, paper, parenting, poem, Poetry, social distancing, turkey Leave a comment

Construction paper
Turkey: feathers grateful for
Dad, Opening doors?

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenback, bees, betrayal, brown, bugs, COVID-19, haiku, hiding, hive, insects, paint, painted, pandemic, poem, Poetry, social distancing, stink bugs, Wood Leave a comment

Stink bug hiding in
A hive of painted wood bees—
Brown back betrays it

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenceiling, ceiling fan, COVID-19, fan, haiku, home, Light, nope, one, pandemic, poem, Poetry, Room, social distancing, socket, white, yellow Leave a comment

Ceiling fan clicking:
One light yellow, one light white,
One light—nope—socket

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