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Volume 55.3
Autumn
2024

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

 

summer night
I grope my way
to her heart

Ernest Wit

 

garbage spill
getting to know
the neighbor

Al Williams

 

old family Bible
the names
crossed out

Angela Terry

 

January snow . . .
crossing the easy things
off the list

Mary Stevens

 

helicopter seeds
my daughter asks
what dads are for

j rap

 

always there the music in the piano

Shloka Shankar

 

a shim
under the table leg
his stories about the war

Lorraine A. Padden

 

hillbullied

Rowan Beckette Minor

 

secluded beach
a wavelet
plays footsie

Scott Mason

 

her Buddha face forgotten waiting tables

Thomas Chockley

 

Sunday
cross words
undone

Bob Lucky

 

mudflats
as far as the toes
can squish

Deb Koen

 

frittering away
the inheritance . . .
melting glaciers

Laurie Greet

 

sturgeon moon
the catch and release
of an old regret

Terri French

 

Grandpa's Edsel
still parked in the garage
of his mind

Karen DiNobile

 

willow wind
their plans to grow
a family

Francine Banwarth

 

 

 

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