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Ten Thousand Haiku

27 years of 17-syllable days

Tag Archives: sticky

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsen5, Christmas, Christmas tree, COVID-19, five, haiku, imagination, leaves, Light, pandemic, plants, poem, Poetry, sap, social distancing, sticky, thumb, tree sap, Trees, weight Leave a comment

Five-foot Christmas tree
Lighter than I’d imagined
Leaves sap on my thumb

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsencaramel corn, cooking, COVID-19, cups, fade, faded, haiku, kitchen, liquid, marks, measuring, measuring cup, pandemic, poem, Poetry, popcorn, social distancing, sticks, sticky Leave a comment

Caramel corn sticks to
This liquid measuring cup’s
Faded volume marks

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17 July 2020Calvin OlsenCalvin Olsen, COVID-19, creosote, haiku, heat, leaching, poem, Poetry, railroad, railroad ties, shoes, social distancing, soles, stick, sticky, tie, warm Leave a comment

Creosote leaching
From railroad ties in the heat
Sticks to our warm soles

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1 October 2019Calvin Olsenbleeding, blue, C, E, fill, full, haiku, hands, handwriting, ink, note, notes, orange, pen, poem, Poetry, sticky, sticky note, writing Leave a comment

Orange sticky note
Fills with blue ink—E’s & C’s
Bleed onto my hand

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11 June 2019Calvin Olsenberries, cone, delicious, haiku, heat, hot, ice cream, ice cream cone, pink, poem, Poetry, pool, run, running, side, sticky, strawberry, Summer Leave a comment

Strawberry ice cream
Runs down the side of its cone:
Pink pool of sticky

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18 January 2019Calvin Olsenfloor, haiku, hardwood, lacquer, poem, Poetry, shoes, sticky, Wood, YMCA Leave a comment

The YMCA’s
Newly-lacquered hardwood floors
Keep my soles in place

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23 October 2018Calvin Olsenbaby, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, crumb trail, crumbs, delicious, dessert, fingers, food, frosting, haiku, hands, marks, poem, Poetry, sticky, tiny, trail, white Leave a comment

Chocolate cake crumb trail
Finger marks in white frosting
Tiny sticky hand

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8 July 2017Calvin Olsencheating, competition, croquet, fireflies, games, haiku, humidity, kids, mallet, night, North Carolina, poem, Poetry, sticky, Summer Leave a comment

Sticky summer night
Croquet mallets, fireflies
Teach a kid to cheat

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8 September 2014Calvin Olsenbus, campus, college, school, shuttle, sticky, transportation, white Leave a comment

On-campus shuttle
Rusting school bus painted white
I stick to the seat

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