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Scott Wiggerman
a golden shovel incorporating a Bashō haiku
The stillness
of night wings, the gentle piercing
of dark heavens, the
soft echoes of this terrain of rocks.
A high desert mesa, the
stars: quiet has a sound.
Fleeing the past in the silence of
now, it returns, droning like cicadas.
Scott Wiggerman is the author of three books of poetry, Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, Presence, and Vegetables and Other Relationships; and the editor of several volumes, including Wingbeats: Exercises & Practice in Poetry, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga, and Wingbeats II. He is an editor for Dos Gatos Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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