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Volume 57.2 Summer 2026
sample haiku & senryu
cats in love dinosaurs in love mountains in love
Fay Aoyagi
shoebox funeral questions Alexa can't answer
Millicent Bee
fish story the oxygen tube slips from his nose
Brad Bennett
slushy sidewalk a second med for the first one's side effect
Daniel Shank Cruz
at the garage sale she buys a quarter horse
Karn DiNobile
somewhere over the brontosaurus us
LeRoy Gorman
dandelion immigration status unknown
Julie Ann Espinoza
ticklish too . . . ants teasing the peony buds
Michele L. Harvey
flour sack dresses . . . she fed and clothed us
Betsy Hearne
would his eyes have been blue Christmas
P M F Johnson
thinning the carrots there is no space for metaphor
Annie Holdren
fitting room mirror I try so hard to please it
Barrie Levine
hike through the woods the wand chooses the wizard
Vandana Parashar
growing old— stiff in all the wrong places
Curt Pawlisch
even trade a lego ninja fighter in the little library
Eric Sundquist
March wind the gate off its hook all night
C. X. Turner
back into the sun a throat's hummingbird
Peter Yovu
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