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Bones - journal for contemporary haikuno. 7

July 15th 2015

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I once was this stone home for another

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because sleep is close to death I’m an iamb

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a new wound in the typeo

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for the occasional discomfort of bioluminescence

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music ( ) of the ( ) quantum

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mid-lifea minor god     

in your average myth

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let’s try the world again, sometime

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another daythe purgatoryof an acorn

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having (never known that feeds you) rhubarb pie

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justaposition

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a regret easing our fathers under the bridge

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deep indigo confidential

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Ask someone to comeAnyone willing to admithome is a carcass

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a bloated belly of something small floating elsewhere rain

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700,000 olive trees remember the butterfly

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a gent or a nge

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dissection –inside the frogoutside the pond

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egg shell par ti tion brought-to-light -- a body dreams

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numerically speaking the soul sucks

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juvenihilism

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tired of i long before moon

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brain burns down to the moon to the sea

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magically repairs vinyl and the color of asters

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down in the darkness my inner bean

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finding spacein the skytomato planting

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gas stationthe muscle car glowswith passed lives

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budding with the promise of privacy trees

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all this clever industry captured and carried away by clouds

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applying your colors to myths inside the box

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mn m n c l mbo on t m mbr n o r m mb r n

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i i i i i iii i i i i ii iiii i ii ii i

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robins outside the Christmas cards

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water strider no other gods before me

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a decoy swept into categories

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to find my purpose google blackbirds say no

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fever    in the window the sky’s blue limit

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upsetting the applecart

a still-lifeis not enough

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plastic flickersin grass along a highwayhopefully it’s love

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between the ads covered with dust another

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the night I was glad of gravity’s direction

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dawn frosta blood-streaked bowl

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blending spring with daisies you get a billboard

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-- self (of ) this blank canvas (of ) why --

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for isolating and accelerating the songs of birds

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dragonfly army I slip off the skins of men in pain

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SSeQuences

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flea market...mom sells pricked hearing            horrorologisticsa ghost in my throat—deliquesces               delicatessinuouslychess piece… all noses in the barn wired                 coinohsurergategrandfather-ed dogs--of all things they bark at teething rings                denticallyexpedite-end

contrapuntals

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inside the thrashing ball of frogs a transcendent kick

cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo …the sweet callof infanticide

somewhere in the whitethorna border crossing ... the goldcrest from nowhere

the legendary chatterbox ... a trapdoor in the whale’s tongue

sweet Williams, ox-eyed daisies … all came and stoodin the ruined houses

expressions of the menstrual red splodge patterning of the chaffinch egg

the dead of Pompeii … still prized as collectibles

in the register of moths’ wingbeatsa crushing fatalism

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the speed the molasses of the year’s dirge

even if the sun rose every day dark

it was grief banging the bumper twice the body fogged

comatose weight of faded blossoms

mused time waxing cluttered and graced

a year’s weight the inexplicable dissolves

so linked in our long love, sung, our woven lives

sung, our woven lives

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Jack’s enchanted dodder: the jungle melts away

her hair gushes forth fouling the beach

that was Goldilocks - food poisoning got her too

red spectres walk the wood, wolves perish

the peculiar man’ssecret name is the safeword

half-human half-fish it stalks the prince

once there were wonders - the Geatish man slew them all

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the cricketin the ribcageitches

a future –small birds rush in

feathers on the house sparrow throughmy hands

dusklight to dawnlight: almost speaking

instars...a body on fingered aster dawn

Daisy Chain

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the concept of border a dew keen to grass

rounding the nucleus of my flower old bee

between a lemon and rose the taste of lust

dragging into day of fervor flute notes float

the pare of immature wet dawn is breaking

after a good night’s rest still whipping wind

however these fingers open warming palm

no substraction, no addition fingered citron

Buddha’s Hand

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tying up the last of my dreams red balloon

drifting next to the wheelbarrow red balloon

lost and found behind a cumulonimbus red balloon

not knowing when to burst red balloon

opening a message from the afterlife red balloon

red balloon

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still deep in my bones the night’s thrust

inside our argument a door opens to the iceberg

shadowland shedding light on every turned stone

turning the inside out my retinas cough up other worlds

the firm grip on me dissolves into a swallows sky

Nightfall

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conjugating verbsacross a battlefieldmatins moon

a child looms largein collerateral damageshunkered moon

transcribed notesin every hymn sheetpoliticians moon

a people’s moonthe song of blackbirdsin every trench

Ticking Moon

cobweb moona man’s opening linesfill with mortar

a list of peoplepaper the tunnelsneglected moon

cullingmoonmanycolorsuniform

we learn to adjustthe clocks of our handsborrowed moon

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riptide remembering in waves

   damp sand where seagulls end in air

      slow as the earth underfoot starfish

         impossibly one mussel-stone

            kelp sway the mind goes jetty’s end

               rock over rock a clam through liquid sand                    abandoned boardwalk the wood grain of water                      calling it a day the lifeguard’s silent whistle

Calling It a Day

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Single haiku

3 Alan Summers4 David Boyer5 Eve Luckring6 Michelle Tennison7 Helen Buckingham8 PeterNewton9 Richard Gilbert

11 Gregory Longenecker12 Matthew Moffett13 angad arora14 Dan Schwerin15 Cherie Hunter Day 16 Ana Karen Garcia Villalpando17 Polona Oblak

19 Alan Summers20 Alan S. Bridges21 Bob Lucky22 Richard Gilbert23 Stella Pierides24 Shloka Shankar25 Sheila Windsor

27 sabine miller28 David Boyer29 Michael Nickels-Wisdom30 Anna Cates

31 George Swede32 Dave Read33 Matthew Moffett

35 Marcus Liljedahl36 Michael Nickels-Wisdom 37 Richard Gilbert38 Alan Summers39 aubrie cox40 Cherie Hunter Day 41 David Boyer

43 Dietmar Tauchner44 Eve Luckring45 Nicholas Klacsanzky46 Sheila Windsor47 Patrick Doerksen48 Helen Buckingham49 Stella Pierides50 Richard Gilbert51 Michelle Tennison52 Alan Summers

Sequences

55 Alegria Imperial56 John W. Sexton

58 Susan Diridoni59 Rich Magahiz

61 Sabine Miller62 Ernesto P. Santiago

64 Shkloka Shankar65 Marcus Liljedahl

67 Alan Summers68 Peter Newton

Graphics by David SmithTwitter: @DavidSmithArt

Editors:

Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg

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