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Summer 2009, vol 7 no 2
 

HAIKU

Assemblage

 

blown kiss
    every tree in my yard
           uprooted
 
   
  spring arrives a photo of Manson at 74
   
warm wind the holes in my life begin to yodel  
   
                   snow
                   the sunspots on
                      a beggar's hand
 
on the widow's porch a dead bird i borrow sugar

        ed markowski
 
   
  winter night
where her face has been
an open book
   
dandelions the girl's face in the rain  
   
  Kamakura
inside the Great Buddha
nothing
 
the child's eye green beyond the barbed wire  
   
  Narita Express
my thoughts
already departed
   
lingering night at daybreak in the soldier's casket

        Dietmar Tauchner
 
   
  a bell
if you tell me
I am hard
 
falling through the night
millions of holes
in my skull
 
   
  where there is no light
one drop of my mind's
blood on a dog's tooth
   
this word now this word
each making a ghost of the last word
now the sword
 
   
  nothing to say
I part
the lips of my wallet

        Peter Yovu
 
still grave stones remain
still grave stone remains
still grave stones ...
 
   
  moths
caught in the lampshade —
free jazz solo
   
while reading Raizan
"the spring rain"
starts to rain
 
   
  lamplight —
a moth zigzags
between stars

        Dick Whyte
 
a cloud shaped like a woman swinging from a cloud  
   
  supple reeds
the river mingles
with the sea
   
racing toward a mountain old enough to climb  
   
  new shapes in the clouds
         we're getting
               warm
 
morning glories
another friend
borrows time

        Peggy Lyles
 
   
  the long day ...
kids jump off a float
into sunset
   
open road ...
the sweet scent of hay
rolled-up
 
   
  moon gazing ...
someone quarrels
on the telephone
 
the moon
lighting my way
blossom drunk

        Tyler Pruett