no.20 June 2013
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no.20
June 2013
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CONTENTS: Haiku p.4 Haiku p.5 Death in summer p.6 Wild flower meadow p.7 Tanka p.8 Haiku p.9 Love p.10 No future p.11 Up on p.12 Tanka & Haiku p.13 Music to be Played for Drinkers p.14 Haiku p.15 Moon beggar p.16 Haiku p.17 Haiku p.18 BAAAAH p.19 Lips/kiss p.20 Haiku p.21 Lullaby p.22 Haiku p.23 Haiku p.24 Haiku p.25 My inner voice p.26 In the dark p.27 Sub – bass p.28 Haiku p.29 Stone p.30 Haiku p.31 Back Page p.32
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Helen Buckingham – England
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your lit match the bridge I cross anyway
Jennifer Thompson – USA
encore one click of the Zippo I'm a rock star again
S.M. Abeles – USA
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Death in summer This is the end, beautiful friend, the end. . . —Jim Morrison’s thin baritone from the Doors’ first and best album of nearly 50 years ago—He’s buried in Paris—in Pere Lachaise cemetery, in the faster company of Balzac, Chopin, Oscar Wilde, and Heloise and Abelard. Morrison: dead of a drug overdose at 27, same age as Mama Cass, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Curt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and a handful of others—all wrecked on the shoals by drugs. No need for drugs or even booze on a day like this: when a fume of poppies from flower-sellers on Rue de Repos makes me think of the sleepy fields of Oz. Laughter and flowers up and down the Rue: and for syncopation, a pale day moon becoming tipsy as, chilling at an outdoor café, I swirl it to and fro in my glass of chardonnay. comforting the dead the quiet breathing of rain
Steven Carter – USA
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Beth McFarland – Germany
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no questions for the flight of a crow, why worry about the destination of my heart?
M. Kei – USA
tonight a friend crossed over the ocean he didn't see coming leaving me to wonder about what poets do
Michael McClintock – USA
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last kiss goodbye who knew
Michael Morell – USA
full blown rose on the egg carton its expiration date
Karen Cesar – USA
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Brendan Slater – England
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Brendan Slater – England
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up on up ward to ward to day to morrow to o to night to p the circus to π a circle in space
Jack Galmitz – USA
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create a space suit and a matching rocket . . . fly here, please and take me traveling where no-one’s ever been
Kirsty Karkow – USA
spring fling loblolly splooge in my chardonnay
Terri L. French – USA
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Music to be Played for Drinkers a broken sequence in D minor tenuous timbre pitched forward unchained keys jangle in her purse crystal shatters at the speed of sound edges of light slice blue lemons stream of words doubles my awareness disharmony refracted midnight crisis manifest in atonalities someone entirely different marking time in mirrored hallways the detectives show their badges and weep Gene Doty – USA
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ragged dawn the frayed edge of a promise
S.M. Abeles – USA
polished smooth by poetry —the rough moon
Sondra J. Byrnes – USA
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Alegria Imperial – Canada
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Fullmoon . . . scared that if they picked me up I'd rattle
Helen Buckingham – England
Codeine— what breeze there is rides a rizla
Sara Winteridge – England
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cocooned in fog . . . fishing lines thrum a blue guitar
Karen Cesar – USA
in railroad glass the ghost of a man in a low-slung hat
S.M. Abeles – USA
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Kath Abela Wilson - USA
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lips/kiss seeing your lips it returns my own lips in the dream red, so lipstick red I nearly kiss the wine glass you were the kissing one (I’ll kiss Zina for you)
Susan Diridoni – USA
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lilacs everything’s flying but me
Adrian Bouter – Netherlands
behavior of high clouds die on the wing
Susan Diridoni – USA
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Veronika Zora Novak – Canada
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patience and spit— picking ants off the chewing gum
Michael McClintock – USA
mackerel sky . . . a batch of fish flatten in the smoker
Kirsty Karkow – USA
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the white violets by the side of the path after the last snow
Colin Will – Scotland
the smell of gorse— spring frost cracking beneath my feet
Michael O'Brien – Scotland
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under cellar stairs where dandelions are made
Kath Abela Wilson – USA
broken bones & the ideals that caused them
Robert Epstein – USA
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Gerda Förster – Netherlands & Simone K. Busch – Germany/Japan
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Beth McFarland – Germany
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Sub-bass new tenants downstairs their cooking is Danish the one that's home all day likes machine-made house-music with a deep sub-bass must be loud I never heard anything from down there before not even from those who at least once a week came to apologize for the screaming baby we hope it didn't bother you I didn't hear anything I never asked if they heard me she was weird he was a dog and her mother had the final say she moved he drank and eventually moved too not being able to live alone in this godforsaken village
rain inside the rain a hole from my youth still in my pocket
Johannes S. H. Bjerg – Denmark
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our silence the entropy of words on tv
Dietmar Tauchner – Austria
grandad’s hat telling it as it is
Stella Pierides – Germany/UK
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Beth McFarland – Germany
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a short tail on the young dog— flies know this
Michael McClintock – USA
sit lotus pose contemplate how to stand up
Ozzie Nogg – USA
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