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Volume 43.2 Summer 2012
sample haiku & senryu
mother-in-law: at lunch I try to swallow her words
Debbi Antebi
shoeshine boy— his bare feet
Aditya Bahl
rhododendrons . . . he asks if I’m ready for the second coming
Francine Banwarth
presidential debate I clean the litter box
Barb Behrendt
sunning itself on a river rock her string bikini
Johnny Baranski
crayon sunset I’ll never become a grandmother
Cynthia Cechota
the haiku of a humpback whale one breath
Bill Cooper
shooting stars he reloads his rifle
Aubrie Cox
summer stars she bathes the baby in a tin washtub
Ferris Gilli
art museum she fixes her face in the restroom mirror
Gregory Hopkins
starry night — before I was grown up I was Wonder Woman
Patricia J. Machmiller
dinosaur exhibit little handprints in the dust
Christina Nguyen
wino drinking the blood of Christ
Bill Pauly
they bloom again after the divorce . . . black-eyed susans
Carmi Soifer
a jacked-up car by the side of the road drizzling rain
Cor van den Heuvel
tumor malignus that ancient language not yet dead
Ernest Wit
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