Thursday, December 15, 2011

Jack Kerouac: three haiku

Beautiful summer night
     gorgeous as the robes
Of Jesus

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The hermit's broom,
     the fire, the kettle
-- August night

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Gull sailing
     in the saffron sky --
The Holy Ghost wanted it

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[From Book of Haikus, ed. Regina Weinreich (Penguin Books, 2003), pp. 30, 48, 70]

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