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Volume 42.3
Autmun 2011

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

crescent moon
a new row
at arlington

Wanda D. Cook

 

coffee to go
the truckstop waitress
calls me sugar

Tom Painting

 

no leaves
it all
behind you

Scott Metz

 

deathbed—
putting clean sheets
on it

Ruth Holzer

 

Bellatrix flares
a blue tinge
to my semen

Peter Yovu

 

leaf
fall
i
keep
saying
no

Melissa Allen

 

blind alley . . .
she takes a turn
for the worse

Margaret Dornaus

 

swept under the rug
                       d
                        epression

LeRoy Gorman

 

Valentine's Day
I chip away at her
icy sidewalk

John Stevenson

 

1 from a bridge
2 with a bullet
that kind of family

Eve Luckring

 

plum blossoms
company salaries
still frozen

Ernest Wit

 

where you poop
is an important decision
Chihuahua

David G. Lanoue

 

spring buds
the bright red
of her sweater

Charles Rossiter

 

 

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