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Volume 46.1
Winter Spring
2015

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

our shrinking woodpile trial separation

Jeffrey Stillman

 

petals on the stream
I find myself
saying yes

Wyntirson

 

slicing apples
you look away when you
talk about your father

Penny S. Visser

 

freed for a while
the junkyard dog
lies on his chain

George Swede

 

she has
her braids again
winter wind

Ann K. Schwader

 

eating alone
forcing a smile
for the selfie

Philip Rowland

 

she lifts her mask
to smile . . .
office party

Ken Olson

 

factory gates
a night shift worker shreds
his lotto ticket

John McManus

 

vietnam my father's given name

Brent Goodman

 

woodland mold—
the missing girl
wore pearls

Michael McClintock

 

two inches of water
             dead wasp
       going on alone

Carl Mayfield

 

summer night dream—
not getting too close
to the largest stars

Robert Mainone

 

funeral lilies
still uncut
umbilical

Kristen Deming

 

after the affair
the throaty voice of
his Mustang GT

Johnny Baranski

 

Epiphany
the candle stub
flares

Helen Buckingham

 

fallen leaves me with my grudges

Francine Banwarth

 

 

 

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