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Month: May 2017

first light a strand of her hair between my lips  
Posted on 1 May 201724 April 2017Author Chen-ou LiuCategories Issue 17.18 Comments on
home alone the teapot whistles a single note
Posted on 2 May 201728 April 2017Author an mayouCategories Issue 17.18 Comments on
late again a dozen roses all alike       (Originally published in Modern Haiku, 40.3)
Posted on 3 May 201728 April 2017Author Joyce ClementCategories Issue 17.17 Comments on
wildflowers never make promises
Posted on 4 May 201728 April 2017Author Claudette RussellCategories Issue 17.17 Comments on
regrets the way snow gathers in pine boughs where is the spring to lift this weight?
Posted on 5 May 201721 March 2017Author Steve HodgeCategories Issue 17.1Tags tan renga4 Comments on
my father?s country– each year he goes home for the last time (haiga)
Posted on 8 May 201721 March 2017Author Jane WilliamsCategories Issue 17.1Tags haiga9 Comments on
the setting sun floods potato fields with crimson a migrant looks up at geese flying south  
Posted on 9 May 20177 May 2017Author Chen-ou LiuCategories Issue 17.17 Comments on
unpacked box on the kitchen table— foreign headlines    
Posted on 10 May 201722 May 2025Author Michael Dylan WelchCategories Issue 17.16 Comments on
tears when we have to leave your height chart on the door jamb  
Posted on 11 May 20177 May 2017Author Sally BiggarCategories Issue 17.15 Comments on
waiting for a call from the son who never calls ? Mother’s Day
Posted on 12 May 20177 May 2017Author Bill KenneyCategories Issue 17.17 Comments on
“The Look,” a haibun by Kala Ramesh
Posted on 15 May 20177 May 2017Author Kala RameshCategories Issue 17.120 Comments on
a good chance she’ll change her mind ? sunshowers  
Posted on 16 May 201714 May 2017Author Susan ConstableCategories Issue 17.17 Comments on
the now she returns to dementia
Posted on 17 May 201714 May 2017Author Roland PackerCategories Issue 17.14 Comments on
steam rising through a band of light winter tea
Posted on 18 May 201714 May 2017Author Sondra J. ByrnesCategories Issue 17.15 Comments on
breaking into an abandoned house January wind
Posted on 19 May 201714 May 2017Author Robert NaczasCategories Issue 17.18 Comments on
in foreclosure the dream house we didn’t buy
Posted on 22 May 201714 May 2017Author Julie Bloss KelseyCategories Issue 17.115 Comments on
business lunch the dialogues unspoken  
Posted on 23 May 201714 May 2017Author Dietmar TauchnerCategories Issue 17.15 Comments on
after the protest moonlight on empty tear-gas canisters  
Posted on 24 May 201714 May 2017Author David OatesCategories Issue 17.113 Comments on
sickle day moon boys from the county lockup cut highway grass  
Posted on 25 May 201725 May 2017Author William Cullen Jr.Categories Issue 17.15 Comments on
pit stop we water the roadside flowers  
Posted on 26 May 201714 May 2017Author Dave ReadCategories Issue 17.19 Comments on
remembrance day the gate clangs against its lock    
Posted on 29 May 201712 August 2020Author Alexander B. JoyCategories Issue 17.15 Comments on
a broken tooth yet he sees the young girl naked before him smiling a wide smile as she was at twenty       (Included in A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990)
Posted on 30 May 201729 May 2017Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 17.13 Comments on
on the mend . . . this long afternoon stitched by swallows  
Posted on 31 May 201729 May 2017Author Marion ClarkeCategories Issue 17.134 Comments on
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