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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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