(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Sara Bickley (West Carrollton, OH)
Salvatore Buttaci (Princeton, WV)
Samuel Franklin (Terre Haute, IN)
Rick Hartwell (Moreno Valley, CA)
Danielle Johnson (Clemente, CA)
Lex Joy (Durham, NH)
Taylor Lampton (New Brunswick, NJ)
Lauren McBride (Houston, TX)
Stephen Miller (Stockbridge, MA)
Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory (Jersey City, NJ)
Robert Petras (Toronto, OH)
John Tustin (Flushing, NY)
Annie Welch (Louisville, KY)
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Editor's Note:
May, I ask you this:
where do you store all the joy
winter hid away?
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Sara Bickley
Standing humming hymns
outside the confessional
with the leaky door.
Dropped my cigarette.
Is it clean enough to smoke,
or does it matter?
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John Tustin
You still live with him
And I still sleep next to her
Good thing I’m patient
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Lex Joy
Thesis proposal.
Which work of literature
will I learn to hate?
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Taylor Lampton
The Undergrad Thesis Shuffle
Reading. Reading. Notes.
Hypothesis? Nope! Again!
Reading. Reading. Notes.
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Stephen Miller
You have enemies?
We can address that problem...
Nukes cure lots of things!
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Salvatore Buttaci
claustrophobia
in this tight economy
can be stifling
old man knitting brows,
lean on your question-mark cane.
Life’s a mystery.
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Danielle Johnson
Stuffed Toy Cemetery
Seams busted open
Gloomy pile of marred plush toys
Tobin chews and chews
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Robert E. Petras
from "Redneck Haiku"
Second amendment
Tree-hugging sums-a-bitches
Mullet with crosshairs.
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Annie Welch
Bourbon Haiku
The coming of fall
whispered in mid August as
corn turns to liquor
When I feel too seen
I can write in third person
as she finds shelter
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Lauren McBride
homo sapiens
are LGBT labels
so damned important?
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Samuel Franklin
3:30 a.m.
Early morning Haute
with sleepless, stupid deskjob--
you may kiss my ass.
This is important
My fecal matter
matters a lot--but the smell
kills my gray matter.
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Rick Hartwell
good haiku is like
tasty tidbits offered up
inviting your dreams
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May 2011 AWESOME SAUCE: Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
Judy Blume
Are you there, God? It's
me, Adam-- Margaret got
knocked up. What's cracking?
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Now that spring has sprung,
those haiku that spring to mind
should be sprung to us!
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