A videohaiku sequence

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Seventeen videohaiku from London and Swindon, September-November 2019, completing the cycle of the year begun with Winter Trees and continuing with Pennsylvania Spring and Summer in the UK. All were shot on an iPhone, with haiku arising in response to the footage. Here are the texts for the benefit of the visually impaired. (Note that in a few cases the lineation differs from that given in the video.)

peace garden
the nonresistance
of leaves

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back alleys
it’s not whether but how
we go to seed

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building site
the four-square mounds
of unearthed earth

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poetry festival
someone says the lake
isn’t a lake

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in wild-
flower beds now
only the cosmos

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200 years
after Keats’ ode
autumn persists

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churchyard labyrinth
zeroing in
on the X

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where the dead
are said to sleep
my autumn face

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skyline
the immensity
of our loss

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wet sidewalk
beneath the fallen leaves
another sky

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London after Blake
bearded hipsters open
a pop-up brothel

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in this human city
an ash tree sings
possessed by starlings

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hunting mushrooms
I find
a small circus

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November rain
a mouse forages under
the garden table

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this slower autumn
from which there’s no return
cold to my bones

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guard dog
wagging your tail
I’m leaving now

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moon at the station
imagine belonging
to just one place