GUY R. BEINING ant ant ant ant ant three
October 20, 2013 § Leave a comment
dangling with weeds
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water as preface,
water-logged theme
STUCK to pages.
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paint bone an EARth
shade & tie
pulley to ribcage.
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dark clouds merge
w/ribs of mt.;
a LUNG collapses.
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white, WHITE
butterFLY,
bLINKing light.
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isle led thru
pebbLED shoulders of
her 2 shores.
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a paper thin
sMILE passes
porcelain knobs.
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her flesh buds out
from rosy stockings
PULLED DOWN.
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too soon
the morBID dance
takes hold.
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IX
pluralness into
purpleness, twi-
light sinking.
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a snake t h r u stake
tips
a dead leaf.
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go with blow-
fish & bub-
bled up sand.
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agent orange
over Hanoi, red
pockets under love canal.
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voo-doo, 2 wooden
pegs, her legs rub-
bed f i r e.
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CHRIS GORDON Haiku 21 an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku
October 16, 2013 § Leave a comment
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a love letter to the butterfly gods with strategic misspellings
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avoiding definitions we stroke the tender leaves of the maple
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later you realize it was actually a part of your own body
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where the lines end and the absence begins an architecture or so
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parked ahead of us someone watches the air a syrup
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the rain drips quickly on the white pavement lowfatdeathcamp
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Anorexia plus Silicon
June gets a bruise
then it starts to rain
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twilight those children shout the names of their dogs Freeway and Tequila
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spiders settling in where my habits where away the edges
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I meet the twin she
never mentioned the mist
lit briefly by the sun
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which part of me gets which part of you suddenly it’s spring
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dusk turns gray and
hazy and breaks off into
several angry girls
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leaf shadows on
the ground sway from
the secrets of war
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all the sticks
sharpened differently the moon
has stained your gloves
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she’s reaching for the red
chicken something passes
in front of the sun
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when the rain stops
you find me in the apple
packing my bags
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things I did with my hand show up as dead skin
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SAM SAVAGE ant ant ant ant ant 1995
October 15, 2013 § Leave a comment
from Eighteen kinds of loneliness
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EIGHT
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Going after waving to someone there’s my back
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NINE
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Evening down a road where a car has gone
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TWELVE
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A small window filled with seasounds it lightens
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SEVENTEEN
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Rain on a sharp field of stones
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EIGHTEEN
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With a raincoat and umbrella I go to hear someone sing
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YUGEN PRESS (McCLELLANVILLE 1995)
CHRIS GORDON Modern Haiku Vol. 33.2
September 15, 2013 § Leave a comment
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rain drops drip around the fingerprints on the glass rough tear in the seat
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green at the close of winter a broken crate in the empty train car
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are you asking me because it’s your job or because you want to know?
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twilight those children shout the names of their dogs Freeway and Tequila
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Four seventeen syllable single-line haiku. Chosen by Robert Spiess. Lee Gurga’s first issue as Editor of Modern Haiku. I was invited to contribute the cover art. Freeway and Tequila appeared in Haiku 21 – An anthology of contemporary English-language haiku (Modern Haiku Press 2011). I contributed the cover art to this endeavor as well (Castor & Pollux – Mixed Media 2010).
ant ant ant ant ant one (front cover)
September 8, 2013 § Leave a comment
CHRIS GORDON Northwest Review Vol. 42 #1 (2004)
July 31, 2013 § Leave a comment
TEN HAIKU
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by streetlight ants crawl out of the slot in the meter
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in the blue of his eye some wires and behind them clouds
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covered in graffiti the train car passes quickly through town
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the faint shadows on the paper made by creases in the paper
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all the color has settled to the bottom of the bowl
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cold spring rain snail in its beak the crow blinks
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a bead bounces on the linoleum she said it wouldn’t hurt
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crushed by a tire the yellow pencil fans out from its metal end
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briefly green from the copier two faces speaking to each other
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rain dripping from a light bulb a car backfires
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ant ant ant ant ant four
July 15, 2013 § Leave a comment
“In many ways the culmination of my original vision for the journal.”
ai li, Ronald Baatz, Peter Bakowski, Michael Basinski, Guy R. Beining, Ed Bennett, John M. Bennett, Ernest J. Berry, Diane Borsenik, Jason Sanford Brown, Tom Clausen, MTC Cronin, Bill DiMichele, A. di Michele, Dennis H. Dutton, John Elsberg, Crag Hill, Gary Hotham, Dorothy Howard, Jim Kacian, W. B. Keckler, M. Kettner, Jim Leftwitch, Shawn Lindsay, Paul Long, paul m., Robert Major, Errol Miller, Sheila E. Murphy, Dan Nielsen, Jim Normington, Simon Perchik, Anthony J. Pupello, George Ralph, William Ramsey, Dennis Saleh, Hiroaki Sato, Sam Savage, Caroline Steinhoff Smith, John Stevenson, Michael Dylan Welch, Arizona Zipper.
ant ant ant ant ant xiii
July 8, 2013 § Leave a comment
Facsimile of ant ant ant ant ant issue xiii featuring work by Eve Luckring. Inquiries about reprints to mrcr3w@yahoo.com.
ant ant ant ant ant five
July 7, 2013 § Leave a comment
Now available for the first time here the complete facsimile of the Spring 2002 issue of ant ant ant ant ant. Hiroaki Sato translates selections from Tomizawa Kakio’s Wolf in Heaven. D.A. Levy’s Secret Garden Mix. Samples from M. Kettner’s Full Penny Jar. Jim Kacian’s The Slate Step Brightens. She Rouses Briefly And Says Dragonfly by Chris Gordon. All original design elements included: