Volume XVII, Number 3: September 2015
Haiku — page 5
just after
the priests' chants—
cuckoo song
Kanchan Chatterjee
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
India
mango rain
the tea table stretches
the card game
Kanavu Nila
Bangalore, India
hill farms leaning towards
their last
lilac
Burnell Lippy
Danville, Vermont
dried-up daffodils
wads of writer's block
in the waste basket
RaNae Merrill
New York, New York
new graveyard
a lawnmower man pauses
to choose the path
Alexey Andreev
Moscow, Russia
quarreling crows
the fat bellies
of pasture ponies
Lynne Steel
Hillsboro Beach, Florida
poplar silk
wind lifts the mane
of the chestnut stallion
John Barlow
Ormskirk, England
sultry night
the neighbour's cat
begins its caterwaul
Mark Miller
Shoalhaven Heads, New South Wales
Australia
Vedic chants
children's voices rise above
the scolding squirrel's
Angelee Deodhar
Chandigarh, India
Tea by the window
steam and our words pass
through the screen
Carol Purington
Colrain, Massachusetts