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31 July 2022Calvin Olsenanimals, barrel, black, Black Moor Goldfish, Calvin Olsen, cool, fish, goldfish, haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, sink, sinking, sinks, stare, staring, Water Leave a comment

A Black Moor Goldfish
Stares right up at us and sinks
Into its barrel

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21 April 2022Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, chores, dishes, finger pads, fingers, full, haiku, hand, hands, left, pad, pads, poem, Poetry, sink, starting, Water, wrinkle, wrinkles Leave a comment

Sink full of dishes:
Finger pads on my left hand
Starting to wrinkle

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3 July 2021Calvin Olsenbathroom, COVID-19, dirty, dishes, eating, Edinburgh, haiku, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel, hotel quarantine, piles, poem, Poetry, quarantine, Scotland, sink, social distancing Leave a comment

Hotel Quarantine
Day 4: Dirty dishes piled
In the bathroom sink

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenbowl, bowls, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, cupboard, desk, food, haiku, pandemic, poem, Poetry, sink, social distancing, two, zoom Leave a comment

More bowls on my desk
Than in the sink or cupboard
Going on two days

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26 September 2018Calvin OlsenAnts, breakfast, cereal, corpses, death, eating, floating, food, fourteen, haiku, insects, little bastards, poem, Poetry, sink, stomach Leave a comment

Fourteen ant corpses
Floating in my cereal
Sink now stomachward

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10 January 2018Calvin Olsenbeard, Christmas, clippers, clog, haiku, hair, hum, merry christmas, mom, old, poem, Poetry, present, shaving, sink Leave a comment

Hum of old clippers
Hair from two beards clogs the sink
Merry Christmas, Mom

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20 August 2017Calvin Olsenbank, basketball, cap, eight, fadeaway, game, haiku, I called game, luck, one, poem, Poetry, points, run, sink, sports Leave a comment

An eight-to-one run
Capped off by a fadeaway
Banks and sinks, that’s game

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15 May 2016Calvin Olsenblood, haiku, office, packing tape, pain, poem, Poetry, shredding, sink, steel, wound Leave a comment

Packing tape cutter
Shreds the top of my pinky
Blood in a steel sink

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17 April 2016Calvin Olsencleaning, clog, filter, gray, haiku, hair, housekeeping, kitchen, poem, Poetry, revolution, sink, vacuum, Water 1 Comment

Clogged vacuum filter
Grays the water down the sink
Hair revolution

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30 September 2014Calvin Olsenamplification, dishes, drain, home, kitchen, noise, sink, Water Leave a comment

Sink full of dishes
Bit of water hits the drain
Reverberating

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