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Volume 53.1
Winter Spring
2022

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

when she stopped
being a friend
pears hard as stones

Francine Banwarth

 

crematorium
the resurrection
of face masks

Roberta Beary

 

afternoon moon
she opens her set
of soft pastels

Anne Elise Burgevin

 

covid moon
attaching her
first toe tag

Claire Vogel Camargo

 

when we were five or six broom horses
 

Lorin Ford

 

spider lilies
the road not taken
no longer there

Alvin B. Cruz

 

canceling
the baby shower
blood moon

Edward Cody Huddleston

 

now in
on the secret —
budding crocuses

Jessica Malone Latham

 

I see through her first chrysalis
 

Elmedin Kadric

 

water seeps out
from the rusted pail—
his lie

Patricia J. Machmiller

 

Mountain shadow
     the snail's
          other horn

Vincent Tripi

 

On the table
     with the crucifix
          a skipping stone

Vincent Tripi

 

recycle bin
slipped between seed catalogs
childhood drawings

Debbie Olson

 

last call
a hint of lysol
in the chardonnay

Lorraine A Padden

 

the last wild strawberry —
my season too
must end

Frank Robinson

 

whispering oxygen
snowflakes sideways and up
past the window

Dave Russo

 

hometown
just big enough
for a stranger

John Stevenson

 

 

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