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Volume 57.3
Autumn 2026

 

awards

 

 

Favorite haiku of the Summer 2026 issue:

a hummingbird
darts into the photo
last of summer

Alanna C. Burke

 

Favorite senryu of the Summer 2026 issue:

greeting the faithful
at the church portal—
armed guard

Charlotte Digregorio

 

Favorite haibun of the Summer 2026 issue:

Puzzle Palace Museum
Boca Raton, FL
Oct. 27, 1998

Dear Monopolists,

The problem with other people is mathematical—the leap from one to two already too many orders of complexity. Bet you didn't know I was a math wiz at 10—a special program kid scrutinized by benevolent Ed School groomers. Could have been a baby bookie running numbers on the milk money. What you don't know about me could fill an inventory ledger. I've found this place by chance— avoiding football bars, cheap building materials,
and anything ‘beach’. Ushered into the house-museum by a straight couple who've housed fifty thousand versions of the world as a sliding square dexterity puzzle. I found these docent-hosts slightly smarmy in their zero-sum coupledom. Not that I'm against all publicly pantomimed relationships. I'm out to simplify my mergers and acquisitions—trade the burr of mistake for the whiteout of error.

labyrinth
the loop inside
the turn

Yours,
The Unsolvable


by Judson Evans  

 

 

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