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Bones - journal for contemporary haiku

No 12

March 15th 2017

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the quest ions suit spring sparkling

Adrian Bouter

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spring kaddishan orange drippingas you peel it

Adrian Bouter

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overwhelmed    by goldilocks       centuries to come

Adrian Bouter

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the line of light leaks in ruins

Akira Maeda

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first frost keeping pace with a stranger’s cane

Alexey Andreev

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full moon kids’ noses pressed on

Alexey Andreev

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a jackal heckles the sunset - missiology

Anna Cates

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crap hands eye closed tightlypray and pray

Aoki Harada

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the sea has no figure in a mirror

Ayane Inagaki

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that trait in herin all her friends -beach pebbles

Barnabas Adeleke

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double exposure orange skin the thickness of gossamer

Bill Cooper

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memorandom

Billy Antonio

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Daughter’s crampsher uterus burstingwith demon babies

Bruce England

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Hidden nowin the shapeof a man

Bruce England

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the weakest moment shedding a door

Cherie Hunter Day

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night conferred with one hoof raised

Cherie Hunter Day

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night               cull     pixelates         accordingly

Cherie Hunter Day

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babies strapped to backs barbed-wire sun

Chris Bays

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border agent grasps holster somersaulting kids

Chris Bays

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memories of a memory misplaced lilacs

Chris Bays

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the     just before orgasm

Dan Curtis

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to hold you, an article of faith

Dan Schwerin

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having othered others here for the blood of grapes

Dan Schwerin

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cell walls becoming petrified would

Dan Schwerin

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just go on as if a river can take the rain

Dan Schwerin

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black licorice in plastic dreamless sleep

David Boyer

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night shift at the poison factory a radio set to static

David Boyer

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burnt candy. A fist in the forest crawls under a rock

David Boyer

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brown patches on the lawn in back of my throat

David Boyer

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black by stars: gap in the smile: annunciation

David Boyer

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parent(s)hese(e)s

David J. Kelly

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nothing left to say with our mouths

Dick Whyte

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in a train pass-ing houses hid-den lives

Dietmar Tauchner

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the secretof living aprice tag

Elmedin Kadric

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how gently monarch hands me a landing manual

Elmedin Kadric

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headshot some would say tomato on a nail

Elmedin Kadric

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to where white as snow

Elmedin Kadric

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cuppingvoicepenciltip

Elmedin Kadric

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as if nothingan empty seashorehad happened

Ernest Wit

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full houseyet I’m mistakenfor a ghost

Gabriel Bates

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it is herea vacancy of sky and nowa bird

Hansha Teki

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good news in the ends of now

Hansha Teki

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in becoming a loss of now

Hansha Teki

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coughchanges boy octopus

Haruna Takahashi

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touched by snakes she’s gone to heaven heaven

Haruna Takahashi

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be beautiful dead body Dad be burned,& dinner in a blues bat

Haruna Takahashi

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20th   CenturyReflux  

Helen Buckingham

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yearof the fauxgold cock

Helen Buckingham

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a brain made by a phonein an office calls no one

Hida Yu

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the sound of lifeinto the groundwithout carbon

Hida Yu

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our kalasnikovs and uzis handbuilt by saints with gold crosshairs

Jacob Hoseason

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paralyzed in the death of toys

Jennifer Hambrick

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freezing rain on vibraphone indoor cat

Jennifer Hambrick

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chelsea girli to Iwith the model’s hip

Jennifer Sutherland

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on ice the sister I might have been

John Hawkhead

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church bellsthe onomatopoeiaof dead

John Hawkhead

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in no mirrorno faceis a relief

John Levy

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whome

John Levy

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my inner no fly zones in a nutshell

John Levy

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visiting hoursthen visiting no hours

John Levy

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when the cross gets too heavy plum blossoms

Johnny Baranski

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spring skies clouding over soft onions

Julie Kelsey

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louder than the reality show reality

Julie Warther

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grown handgrandma’s backflowing

Kamo Yuri

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intersectiona lot of eyes seean invisible body

Kamo Yuri

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the woman treewhose arm growstoward an eye

Kanako Ono

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a doll escapesin the glasswithout girls

Kanako Ono

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Queen’s Platethe sound of wateris a horse pissing

LeRoy Gorman

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pickup barpeach after peachwinter normalizes

LeRoy Gorman

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1945Hirosh

LeRoy Gorman

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flakesSistine shrapnel

LeRoy Gorman

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taking your pulse a slow second hand

Mark E. Brager

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orbit crow anywhere gone

Mark Levy

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cold sunhis heartuninflatable

Mark Levy

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The last trainAll of its coachesIn a song

Mark Renney

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We gather in curses with laughter

Mark Renney

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That dead centre crackleNight steps from its seat

Mark Renney

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uncarved in the etherof which tide

limb after limb

Markeith Chavous

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driftwood shelters a verge of concept

Markeith Chavous

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one fifth of a soulmatenever enough red cells

Markeith Chavous

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kick aside the stool to drag the invisible man into the frame

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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Occam’s razor mistaken for the Little Prince’s hat

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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silence on the ground it might accumulate me

Michael Nickels-Wisdom

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in an otherwiseempty cafeteria the glowing man eats sherbet

Mike Andrelczyk

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stolen pineapplesquiver on the earth tremorthe clocks surrender

Mike Andrelczyk

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skin rejects skin at the invisible border line

Mike Andrelczyk

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when a white bear roamed the unheard of

Peter Newton

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my hand in the widow’s smoke inside the flame

Robert Moyer

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p©p

Roland Packer

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sail the judicial ideals federally unfolding

Susan Diridoni 

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astringent the dry air wingbeaten

Susan Diridoni 

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the wild windrobbed of my hutin one summer day

Takahiro Nishinosono

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glitter or fireflies the blues are unperturbed

Timothy Murphy 

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ticking for company knight you are

Timothy Murphy 

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suicidal ideation is eight syllables

Timothy Murphy 

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plimoth nuclear plantation

Tom Sacramona

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inside the pipe dad’s secret life

Tom Sacramona

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his dead motherin her birdseedmiddle of the night

William Keckler 

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some water drowning down a window

William Keckler 

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Institute of Patterned Curtains give us a break

William Keckler 

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a teenage magicianyellow-tomboyish becameblue-precocious

Yu Koyanagi

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endlessthe woman’s shoulders -get typing

Yu Koyanagi

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my forefingeran endless desertruns toward the oasis

Yu Koyanagi

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let’s talk about nail clipper!

Yuichirou HirayamaYuichirou Hirayama

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my memorytheir love

smell of used-car

Yuichirou Hirayama

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regret take a nap in stuffed gorilla

Yuichirou Hirayama

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the other roomstill missingon the road

Yusaku Kimura

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unknown sky never been seeninside me

Yusaku Kimura

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SEQuENCES

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from Light Verse (a work in progress)

before lightwhen to beis just that

in darknessbecominga candle

let there be . . .ta - ta - tastrike the flint

for nowa sparkjust that

Saroyan’s candlesputteringlighght

night breeze —the sound of lighton a wick

the lightthat liesin words

a candle deifynes the darkness

Hansha Teki

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1  pahnd 

2  frahg 

3  splahs

thahw

LeRoy Gorman

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Orpheus igniting our dance

singer hot-wired never good-bye

electric lithe Greek Orphée beguiling lamenting

seasons of loving described implored

verbs of his voice his heart

peeled skin of muscles shorn

adieu ignition to stars

another exit of

Susan Diridoni

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“Martin.”

seeing just nowthe width of this cosmos

a wolf howls

does the high moon carethat leaves blow throughmy garage door crack?

one more holy war—nothing I can do but eatthis free sunrise

this chainsaw cuttinga split oak branch as if arazor on my wrist

tell me, clam,have you ever seen a star—or pulled a trigger?

back again, spider,in Zen meditationon my outhouse seat?

William M. Ramsey

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Bones 12, March 15th 2017

Graphic works by: Michael Hopkinshttp://www.michaelhopkinsdrawings.com/

Editors:

Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg

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