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Volume 51.1
Winter - Spring
2020

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

hospital wait—
folding the shadows
into a paper crane

Kristen Deming

 

another stair
the weight of my daughter's
college bags

Paul McNeil

 

all soul's day the hard boiled marked with an X
 

Francine Banwarth

 

a girl skipping
with electric cord
blossom wind

Paul Chambers

 

refugee girl
the red wagon without
a handle

Bill Cooper

 

newly arrived
the migrant is hired
to pull invasives

Mark Dailey

 

stretching
your buttonhole
summer love

Lee Gurga

 

frozen earth
the poems i didn't read
to her

Jennifer Hambrick

 

gravesite chat
a pair of tombstones
lean in

Mark Alan Osterhaus

 

hard frost
the hunter walks beside
the blood trail

Stella Pierides

 

as they pass
touching for a moment
two ants

Bryan Rickert

 

narrowing path
the brush of hands
as we pass

Michele Root-Bernstein

 

hike break
a spiderweb breathes
on the creek bank

Agnes Eva Savich

 

at the end of the diving board yes
 

Mary Stevens

 

Halloween
I put her apron
on

Barbara Ungar

 

 

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