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Volume 44.1 Winter-Spring 2013
sample haiku & senryu
reunion remembering why I never kept in touch
Barb Behrendt
smoothing it with gloved hands the ransom note
Carlos Colon
selecting plots for eternal rest cloudburst
Elizabeth Crocket
forty-fifth reunion . . . seniors again
Charlotte Digregorio
clinging to an old hope the reek of mothballs
Lorin Ford
seven sisters some things are clearer in the dark
Bryce Emley
toy guns . . . the war lasts till dinner time
Stanford M. Forrester
beach party gossip— picking the meat from crab legs with a crab claw
Carolyn Hall
Graduation day the mother and daughter wear matching nose jobs
Alicia Hilton
spring the boys look small next to their girlfriends
Marcus Larsson
pumpkins rest on mud you sink in
John Martone
old book fair— a pair of swallowtails in inky black
Emiko Miyashita
daddy lets her down easy see saw
Robert Moyer
ghost stories . . . campfire smoke keeps following me
Bill Pauly
tennis backspin my son asks me about girls
Michelle Shaefer
line at the casket an old flame touches the wood
Dan Schwerin
i try to give the poem deeper meaning . . . coffee cup flotsam
George Swede
hermit crab the teen couple finds the fisherman's shack
Linda Jeannette Ward
the truths I know gather dust on the shelves— autumn wind
Billie Wilson
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