Dispatch from the Thinning
By David Anson LeeBellaire, Texas, United States They said our town still had a forest, though it clung to the…
Building a Birdhouse
Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan That stuff is for the birds, the builder says, when I point out the loss of shade…
Atlas of Small Things
By David Anson LeeBellaire, Texas, United StatesWhen the last map burned,we traced new roads from thumbprints:salt in the seams,a country…
A Southern Woman Nails Up Her Theses
Rebecca DrouilhetPicayune, Mississippi, USA I have an announcement to make: It’s the end of the line for idiotkind. The Civil…
Skin and Bones
Pegah Rahmati NezhadTehran, Tehran province, Iran skin and bones with a bulging (b)elly African child fed up with kwashiorkor
Depravation Darlings
By Colin JamesMassachusetts The acronym B.L.A.H.written on the clubhouse door,because legends are human.I will follow you anywheresuitably hydrated, then demobbedin…
The Meaning of Color: Portrait of Else Lasker-Schuler
By Richard WeaverSan Diego, California, USA As the Prince of Thebes, I always dress in silks and bright bangles. You say…
Geologic Doom
By William DoreskiPeterborough, New Hampshire Ashen silence molds itselfinto the shape of geese driftingon a gray lake. The angleof their…
Floral Derision
By William DoreskiPeterborough New Hampshire Fragrant lilies critique the pond.Subtleties of their punctuationleave us gasping for response. The water is…
Yimakh Shemo ( יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ)
by Gerard Sarnat May his end be to be cut off; in another generation may their name be blotted out.—Psalm 109…
Annunciation
Jenny Ward AngyalGibsonville, North Carolina, USA Days after the latest school shooting, I wake to the sound of shotgun blasts…
Alternation of Generations
By Joshua St. Claire They act like it didn’t happen because they don’t know that it happened. purely for his…
magnificent ramshorn
By Joshua St. Claire 21 13 8 5 3 2 1 1 magnificent ramshorn Saving a Magnificent Snail - College of…
plastic soup
By Debbie StrangeCanada Failed Haiku Journal of Senryū, Volume 3, Issue 28, April 2018
child abuse
By Debbie StrangeCanada Failed Haiku Journal of Senryū, Volume 6, Issue 62, February 2021
a cloud atlas
By Debbie StrangeCanada Sonic Boom, Issue 11, April 2018
What Price Glory?
Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan “If only we could placate the world’s rage with a drop of poetry or of love .…
Duck and Cover
By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan The Cuban Missile Crisis. I was in grade school and we had drills. The same loud…
split open
Vidya Premkumar (Haiku)John Levy (Photo)
olive harvest –
By Vidya PremkumarKerala, India olive harvest –bucket, ladder and picnicunder the occupation