Friday, July 1, 2011

High Coup Journal - July 2011 Issue

(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)


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IN THIS ISSUE:

James Dye (Dubuque, IA)

Jack Granath (Kansas City, KS)

Amy Harris (West Lafayette, IN)

Lex Joy (Amherst, MA)

Jamie Lushbaugh (Terre Haute, IN)

Amit Parmessur (Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius)

Geoff Pope (Renton, WA)

Miriam Sagan (Santa Fe, NM)

Mitzi Sicking (Midland, TX)


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Editor's Note:

Each birthday a door
to new, unseen hallway
ending in a door.


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Lex Joy 

Philosophy class--
One more angry German man
says we know nothing...


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Amit Parmessur

Yellow cars speeding;
Farting thin cancerous clouds
like a wintry mouth

Bonnet on my head,
As a king on a tall stool
I watch worlds drying

With a toothless mouth
My multi-colored moustache’s
A dusty toothbrush

Two pharmacy bombs
sending me to paradise,
my doctor to hell


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Geoff Pope


“Shit!”

I heard my mom say
“Shit!” only once in her life —
door crushed ring finger


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Amy Harris

Sarah Palin: the
evolution of man will
not be televised.*

* RIP Gil Scott-Heron


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Jack Granath

Her body sculpted
by a summer dress--so much
for non-attachment.

She laughs, the purse strap
between her breasts, a lesson
in geography.


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James Dye 

An intense debate
Does not deserve metaphors!
Fuck! You get the point?


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Jamie Lushbaugh

Your sandpaper tongue
licks my face after your ass.
Thanks for the gross bath.

At Petsmart, select
The three-figure, plush cat tree.
He plays in the box

Um, no, officer.
I don't know whose pot that is.
You sure it's not yours?


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Mitzi Sicking 

Unneeded finger
When you, my fellow driver,
Ran the stop sign.  Jerk.


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Miriam Sagan 

to escape the smoke
as ten thousand acres burns--
movie with mermaids

cherry blossoms float
on the edge of this haiku's
silent green pond scum


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July 2011 AWESOME SAUCE: Geoff Pope

do you suck and chew
on tips of the alphabet
until your mouth bleeds?
  

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Send birthday money
or at least some more haiku
to assuage your guilt.

highcoupjournal {at} gmail.com

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