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Volume 35.3
Autumn 2004

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

high hopes arcing
a cloudless sky—eclipsed by
the outfielder's glove
Peter Yovu

 

old house crunched
in the power shovel's jaw—
whiff of cedar
Ruth Yarrow

 

cool autumn breeze
along the familiar trail
my mother calling
Stephanie Shampine

 

warm on the boardwalk
          p a t t e r
    of the baby's pee
Emily Romano

 

Mother's Day
a bit of shell
in the chowder
paul m.

 

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Old burial ground.
That otherworldly scythe-swish
still the only sound

Paul Muldoon

from Sixty Instant Messages to Tom Moore

 

Valentines for Amy

RAPTURE
SPREADS
in
the
smell
OF
THE BLOSSOM
but is it light
on the scale

Michael McClure

 

breakfast over
an acacia leaf settles
on the table
Caroline Gourlay

 

a slow desent—
one silk strand
to break his fall
Megs Lewis

 

showering
after her
n ice
LeRoy Gorman

 

cremation ashes
its nose into everything
the bounding puppy
David Cobb

 

 

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