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Volume 51.3
Autumn
2020

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

kicking the tires
to stay warm—
hearse driver

Lew Watts

 

small town—
the few who come to
a full stop

John Stevenson

 

this life after a hole in the cocoon
 

Julie Warther

 

in the midst
of killings
the flowers return

Crystal Simone Smith

 

afternoon breeze
across the pool
my book a sail

Agnes Eva Savich

 

searching for morels she tells me an old lover's secret
 

Matthew Moffett

 

the bar by the hospital
falling down
all twelve steps

J. Brian Robertson

 

a glass of wine
with the departed
winter twlight

Marion Alice Poirer

 

kingfisher blue rumors of a vaccine
 

Tanya McDonald

 

on the desk
of the guidance counselor
unicorn statue

David Oates

 

summer lockdown
an excavator digs
where the statue was

Lenard D. Moore

 

snapping beans perhaps not all is forgiven
 

Kelly Sauvage Angel

 

selling the house
we quietly unmark
the pets' graves

William Keckler

 

postal stamps . . .
the zig-zag edges
of our marriage

Kinshuk Gupta

 

holding the line
held by it
protest march

Ben Gaa

 

April breeze
the tennis courts
without nets

Bruce H. Feingold

 

shooting star
we don't shake hands
anymore

Yu Chang

 

hanging on
the rear view mirror
face mask

Caroline Giles Banks

 

 

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