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Bones - journal for contemporary haiku
No 12
March 15th 2017
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the quest ions suit spring sparkling
Adrian Bouter
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spring kaddishan orange drippingas you peel it
Adrian Bouter
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overwhelmed by goldilocks centuries to come
Adrian Bouter
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the line of light leaks in ruins
Akira Maeda
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first frost keeping pace with a stranger’s cane
Alexey Andreev
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full moon kids’ noses pressed on
Alexey Andreev
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a jackal heckles the sunset - missiology
Anna Cates
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crap hands eye closed tightlypray and pray
Aoki Harada
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the sea has no figure in a mirror
Ayane Inagaki
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that trait in herin all her friends -beach pebbles
Barnabas Adeleke
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double exposure orange skin the thickness of gossamer
Bill Cooper
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memorandom
Billy Antonio
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Daughter’s crampsher uterus burstingwith demon babies
Bruce England
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Hidden nowin the shapeof a man
Bruce England
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the weakest moment shedding a door
Cherie Hunter Day
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night conferred with one hoof raised
Cherie Hunter Day
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night cull pixelates accordingly
Cherie Hunter Day
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babies strapped to backs barbed-wire sun
Chris Bays
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border agent grasps holster somersaulting kids
Chris Bays
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memories of a memory misplaced lilacs
Chris Bays
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the just before orgasm
Dan Curtis
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to hold you, an article of faith
Dan Schwerin
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having othered others here for the blood of grapes
Dan Schwerin
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cell walls becoming petrified would
Dan Schwerin
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just go on as if a river can take the rain
Dan Schwerin
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black licorice in plastic dreamless sleep
David Boyer
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night shift at the poison factory a radio set to static
David Boyer
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burnt candy. A fist in the forest crawls under a rock
David Boyer
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brown patches on the lawn in back of my throat
David Boyer
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black by stars: gap in the smile: annunciation
David Boyer
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parent(s)hese(e)s
David J. Kelly
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nothing left to say with our mouths
Dick Whyte
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in a train pass-ing houses hid-den lives
Dietmar Tauchner
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the secretof living aprice tag
Elmedin Kadric
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how gently monarch hands me a landing manual
Elmedin Kadric
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headshot some would say tomato on a nail
Elmedin Kadric
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to where white as snow
Elmedin Kadric
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cuppingvoicepenciltip
Elmedin Kadric
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as if nothingan empty seashorehad happened
Ernest Wit
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full houseyet I’m mistakenfor a ghost
Gabriel Bates
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it is herea vacancy of sky and nowa bird
Hansha Teki
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good news in the ends of now
Hansha Teki
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in becoming a loss of now
Hansha Teki
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coughchanges boy octopus
Haruna Takahashi
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touched by snakes she’s gone to heaven heaven
Haruna Takahashi
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be beautiful dead body Dad be burned,& dinner in a blues bat
Haruna Takahashi
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20th CenturyReflux
Helen Buckingham
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yearof the fauxgold cock
Helen Buckingham
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a brain made by a phonein an office calls no one
Hida Yu
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the sound of lifeinto the groundwithout carbon
Hida Yu
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our kalasnikovs and uzis handbuilt by saints with gold crosshairs
Jacob Hoseason
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paralyzed in the death of toys
Jennifer Hambrick
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freezing rain on vibraphone indoor cat
Jennifer Hambrick
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chelsea girli to Iwith the model’s hip
Jennifer Sutherland
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on ice the sister I might have been
John Hawkhead
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church bellsthe onomatopoeiaof dead
John Hawkhead
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in no mirrorno faceis a relief
John Levy
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whome
John Levy
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my inner no fly zones in a nutshell
John Levy
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visiting hoursthen visiting no hours
John Levy
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when the cross gets too heavy plum blossoms
Johnny Baranski
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spring skies clouding over soft onions
Julie Kelsey
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louder than the reality show reality
Julie Warther
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grown handgrandma’s backflowing
Kamo Yuri
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intersectiona lot of eyes seean invisible body
Kamo Yuri
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the woman treewhose arm growstoward an eye
Kanako Ono
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a doll escapesin the glasswithout girls
Kanako Ono
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Queen’s Platethe sound of wateris a horse pissing
LeRoy Gorman
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pickup barpeach after peachwinter normalizes
LeRoy Gorman
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1945Hirosh
LeRoy Gorman
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flakesSistine shrapnel
LeRoy Gorman
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taking your pulse a slow second hand
Mark E. Brager
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orbit crow anywhere gone
Mark Levy
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cold sunhis heartuninflatable
Mark Levy
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The last trainAll of its coachesIn a song
Mark Renney
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We gather in curses with laughter
Mark Renney
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That dead centre crackleNight steps from its seat
Mark Renney
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uncarved in the etherof which tide
limb after limb
Markeith Chavous
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driftwood shelters a verge of concept
Markeith Chavous
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one fifth of a soulmatenever enough red cells
Markeith Chavous
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kick aside the stool to drag the invisible man into the frame
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
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Occam’s razor mistaken for the Little Prince’s hat
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
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silence on the ground it might accumulate me
Michael Nickels-Wisdom
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in an otherwiseempty cafeteria the glowing man eats sherbet
Mike Andrelczyk
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stolen pineapplesquiver on the earth tremorthe clocks surrender
Mike Andrelczyk
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skin rejects skin at the invisible border line
Mike Andrelczyk
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when a white bear roamed the unheard of
Peter Newton
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my hand in the widow’s smoke inside the flame
Robert Moyer
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p©p
Roland Packer
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sail the judicial ideals federally unfolding
Susan Diridoni
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astringent the dry air wingbeaten
Susan Diridoni
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the wild windrobbed of my hutin one summer day
Takahiro Nishinosono
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glitter or fireflies the blues are unperturbed
Timothy Murphy
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ticking for company knight you are
Timothy Murphy
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suicidal ideation is eight syllables
Timothy Murphy
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plimoth nuclear plantation
Tom Sacramona
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inside the pipe dad’s secret life
Tom Sacramona
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his dead motherin her birdseedmiddle of the night
William Keckler
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some water drowning down a window
William Keckler
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Institute of Patterned Curtains give us a break
William Keckler
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a teenage magicianyellow-tomboyish becameblue-precocious
Yu Koyanagi
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endlessthe woman’s shoulders -get typing
Yu Koyanagi
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my forefingeran endless desertruns toward the oasis
Yu Koyanagi
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let’s talk about nail clipper!
Yuichirou HirayamaYuichirou Hirayama
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my memorytheir love
smell of used-car
Yuichirou Hirayama
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regret take a nap in stuffed gorilla
Yuichirou Hirayama
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the other roomstill missingon the road
Yusaku Kimura
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unknown sky never been seeninside me
Yusaku Kimura
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SEQuENCES
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from Light Verse (a work in progress)
before lightwhen to beis just that
in darknessbecominga candle
let there be . . .ta - ta - tastrike the flint
for nowa sparkjust that
Saroyan’s candlesputteringlighght
night breeze —the sound of lighton a wick
the lightthat liesin words
a candle deifynes the darkness
Hansha Teki
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1 pahnd
2 frahg
3 splahs
thahw
LeRoy Gorman
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Orpheus igniting our dance
singer hot-wired never good-bye
electric lithe Greek Orphée beguiling lamenting
seasons of loving described implored
verbs of his voice his heart
peeled skin of muscles shorn
adieu ignition to stars
another exit of
Susan Diridoni
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“Martin.”
seeing just nowthe width of this cosmos
a wolf howls
does the high moon carethat leaves blow throughmy garage door crack?
one more holy war—nothing I can do but eatthis free sunrise
this chainsaw cuttinga split oak branch as if arazor on my wrist
tell me, clam,have you ever seen a star—or pulled a trigger?
back again, spider,in Zen meditationon my outhouse seat?
William M. Ramsey
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Bones 12, March 15th 2017
Graphic works by: Michael Hopkinshttp://www.michaelhopkinsdrawings.com/
Editors:
Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg
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