High Coup Journal - October 2011 Issue

(Photo by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN)

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Art Bupkis (Gainesville, FL)

Courtney Davis (Freehold, NJ)

Amanda Hillenburg (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada)

Rose Kowaliw (Swanzey, NH)

Chuck Von Nordheim (Dayton, OH)

Annie Perconti (Louisville, KY)

Amelia Ritner (Hinsdale, MA)

John Tustin (New Hyde Park, NY)

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Editor's Note:

Snow, a white pillow

waits to smother leaves as red

as an infant's cheeks.

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Courtney Davis

It’s Rosh Hashana

wishing you a very sweet

and healthy new year

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John Tustin

All your dark dark hair

On my pillow. Like curtains

Smothering sorrow

  

You packed up and left

Watching me disintegrate

And now I am dust

Fill my emptiness

With your liquid compassion

Flood me with your love

Your face in the sun

Your face in the light of moon

I will take them both

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Art Bupkis

(Mr. Bupkis prefaced his submission with the following explanation: "Well, Yankees, you may be 'anal' about 5/7/5, citing 'English', but these ain't in English, they're in Cracker... Cracker is terse: 3/5/3.")

on that pine

that damn crow’s landed

cock the gun

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Rose Kowaliw

 Worst Bridesmaid Gown

 Hot pink, puffy sleeves

with matching shoes in satin.

Big pink marshmallow.

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Amanda Hillenburg

#firstworldproblems

Protests nationwide?

But a celeb did something

Report that instead.

Children are starving

Who cares? Facebook changed my feed.

brb raging

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Annie Perconti

Slipping hips into

belts hung low, laced with language 

she's ready to flow.

He's an eye-drifter--

Slipping low into places 

the world cannot know. 

Thoughts form like stitches.

The machinist of the mind

connects truth with lies.

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Amelia Ritner

The cold morning air

Tea in hand, cat at my feet

The winter begins.

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Chuck Von Nordheim

spectral fog shimmers

above lamp-lit wet blacktop--

autumn’s grey tint grows

helmeted ranks break

through butcher paper banners--

homecoming heralds

drive past corn stubble

see leaves rage yellow and red--

autumn’s last warm day

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October 2011 AWESOME SAUCE: John Tustin

Like riding lightning

I love you differently

But I love you both

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Best of luck to all

coming up with new ideas

for haiku and life.

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