The Last Fable
By Rebecca DrouilhetPicayune, MS, USA At midnight the little mouse lights a flickering candle and dips her heavy quill in…
Renascence
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA No cougars are supposed to roam the Appalachian mountains. They’re supposed to be…
The Spinning Wheel
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA milkweed bloomsat the meadow’s edgeshe waitsfor the monarch’s blessingunder a shattered sky one…
Evensong
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA butterflies flutterfrom the artist’s brushin memoriam—a river of monarchsonce flowed across the sky…
Out of Season
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA Not that it wasn’t appreciated however unexpected Not that it wasn’t beautiful however out of…
The garden in November
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA Preparing it for sleep with maple leaves in various stages of decay a foot thick…
This time
By Doug SylverSeattle, Washington, USA This is when the Quileute tribe calls getting to be the time of no more…
As Einstein would say
By Diana WebbLeatherhead, Surrey, UK She is walking back from the supermarket, bag weighed down by difficult choices, when in the…
Beyond the Threshold
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA the slow beatof an egret’s wingswhiteagainst dark oaks—earth’s annunciation vulturescradled on the windendlessly…
Limb from Limb
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA morning lightgilding the treetopsas they fallsplinters lodgein my paperbark heart the soundof limbs…
Gone
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA the screamof a red-tailed hawkover the woodwhere dozers wait—my silent cry an echo…
Night Paddling
By Tish DavisConcord Township, Ohio, USA I show my son how to tie up the food pack. “It keeps the…
Night Heron
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA small silence –a night heron ensnaredin fishing wire First published in Plum Tree Tavern, 2015
Landfill Overflow
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA landfill overflow . . .a praying mantisbows its head A version of this haiku…
Manatee
By Theresa A. CancroWilmington, Delaware, USA crescent moon –a scarred manatee nurses her calf First published in Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and…
Hunter Moon
By R. Suresh babuChikmagalur, Karnataka, India hunter moona rhinowithout his horn
Manifesto
By Jenny Ward Angyal Gibsonville, North Carolina, USA jack in his woodland pulpit preaches . . . the right of…
Gaia
by Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA a boulder lieswhere the glacier left it—clear as crystalthe old crone’s memoryof fire…
One Clover and a Bee
By Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Dark-eyed and playful, childlike but childless, Elizabeth Ann needs an emergency hysterectomy or…
Vultures
Kala RameshChennai/Pune, India vulturesaround a dead elephant -tusks missing Modern Haiku: issue 52.1, February 2021