Volume XVII, Number 3: September 2015
Haiku — page 7
garbage day—
blindsided
by morning honeysuckle
Tanya McDonald
Woodinville, Washington
skywriting
in my face
the gnat
Elizabeth Steinglass
Washington, District of Columbia
creosote
glistening on telephone poles
midday heat
Christopher Herold
Port Townsend, Washington
drowsy afternoon
clover heads heavy
with beebuzz
Michele Root-Bernstein
East Lansing, Michigan
African summer
elephants trumpet
in the dusty plains
Rakotomahefa Diamondra.
Tana, Madagascar
cracked flagstone
an ant lugging its caterpillar
home
David McCann Watertown, Massachusetts
sea of dry grass
the news that there is
no Ithaca
Ernest Wit
Warsaw, Poland
tall grass
so dry it hums
dad's death day
Robert Epstein
El Cerrito, California
prayer circle
the time it takes dust
to settle
Sandra Simpson
Tauranga, New Zealand
I hoist my son
onto my shoulders
solar eclipse
John McManus
Carlisle, Cumbria
England