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Volume 35.2
Summer 2004

 

sample haiku & senryu

 

leaning on his rake
Autumn wind fills
the prisoner's sleeve

Gary Lebel

 

Two crows on the ice
flapping their wings as they peck—
I pull my scarf tight.

Billy Collins

 

veteran's day:
combat boots filled
with closet darkness

Joyce Walker Currier

 

fireflies . . .
another pair of bare feet
on the porch rail

Robert Gilliland

 

the heron's wingspan
my daughter
shows me

Michael Kennedy

 

rising
to
urinate
the
dog
star
Steven LeRoy

 

heretic me . . .
the orthodox cricket
chanting vespers

Robert Spiess

 

everywhere this week
I remember you said
get lost

John Stevenson

 

a jacket
on the playground fence
summer moon

Cor van den Heuvel

 

last day of school—
a girl standing in the surf
lifts her dress

John W. Wisdom

 

tucking the bedspread
under double bed pillows
her old bosoms hang

Ruth Yarrow

 

 

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