19. Thematic MS Titles || Haiku Fragments

Subtle arches throughout full volume— a hidden extended metaphor building up within multiple poems, with modern connections, modern situations, paralleled circumstances. Unspoken metaphor.

           Genesis
           Enkidu
           Labyrinth
           Leviathan
           Kraken
           Behemoth
           God of Thieves

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Or Dividing MS into Two Parts, under One Common Title

                      This Village, Dark
           in October

—and so, part one's title and part two's title are displayed as one, yet broken by a manipulating, awkwardly placed caesura.

•••••Alec Monologue
(5)     will you take me back

          clipped / slit / wound / trimmed / snipped / cut sunflower heads

(5)     sunflowers/heads of
(4)     cutgreen glass vase

          evening / dusk / night / twilight

(8)     sunflowers at night in window

(5/6)     wounded sunflower heads

•••••

coffee in a paper cup, cooling on the desktop.
           a papercup of coffee
—fall of a pen, within
—three quarters & one dime left after lunch