Modern Haiku 37.1 Haiku & Senryu

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Volume 37.1
Spring 2006

sample haiku & senryu

funeral home
here too
she straightens his tie

Roberta Beary

Hitchhiking alone
I notice an ant
walking in my direction.

Billy Collins

Civil War reenactment
both the armies flee
the thunderstorm

John J. Dunphy

85-year-old twin—
wearing hearing aid
no longer identical

Bud Goodrich

summer school—
laughter passes under
a third floor window

Susan Marie La Vallee

quilting class—
cigarettes glow
in a row of pickup trucks

Fran Masat

end of summer—
pressing her body against
the sea wall

Scott Metz

three's a crowd
the butterflies
meet
and part

Katherine B. Steimann

spring sun
the click of her cane
quickens

Marilyn Appl Walker