HAIKU IN ENGLISH: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS ant ant ant ant ant
January 30, 2014 § 1 Comment
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the cloud-edge on the horizon deer head in the freezer
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Jon Cone
Issue Six
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where the lines end and the absence begins an architecture or so
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Chris Gordon
Issue Five
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clear winter sky over the radio the first bombs
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Dorothy Howard
Issue Four
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whittling
till there’s nothing left
of the light
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Jim Kacian
Issue Five
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your hair drawn back
the sharp taste of radishes
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M. Kettner
Issue Five
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meadow speaking the language she dreams in
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Scott Metz
Issue Nine
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SCOTT METZ MASKS No. ONE
November 6, 2013 § Leave a comment
A SACRIFICE MADE FOR THE SHADOWS
BIRD CAGE to GOETHE
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A Famous Love Letter
War the Queen of Violets
one day she finally
spoke up waking
perhaps brighter days
my friend
King of the Sharks
the church bells sound
most blissful moment
like jellyfish
I would refuse them
but they disappeared
the Queen of Violets
flowed at this parting
part of a question about
as I interrupted the cloud
irrational lines
and my beautiful dreams
the distant far-extended night
in a redwood forest
in the tone of your voice
the Shark King
taking lifetimes
to be with me
wherever I go
my happiness is my home
B.
the Queen of Violets
her hallucinations
in triplicate
Letter to a New Acquaintance
Dear Shark King
I the taste of
being a scarecrow
a fatal weakness for the coast
for the Queen of Violets
left us to ourselves
the fog is so shy
since the keyhole
three phone calls
you wouldn’t understand
I suppose
the Shark King
in a big city all your life
the memory of creating an ocean
if you dropped it tomorrow
with an ocean all over again
under clouds
what do you do for
the Queen of Violets?
you expect another holiday?
the Queen of Violets
part of the bargain
buried her teeth
cordially
after the storm
Vivian
the Shark King
inside the moss
Letter to a Jealous Sweetheart
My Darling
why do you insist on hurting
the Queen of Violets?
our neighbors
to the next life she takes
a fear of snakes
you?
you can’t penalize me for
the Shark King
this argument so often burns
you’re only too ready to believe
the coral’s dream
certainly married to the hands
by all rights he ought to hate me
a steel worker
that’s beyond my control you see
the Queen of Violets
yesterday mother received
the Shark King
a sacrifice made
you read this line
no strings attached for the shadows
I swear
the Queen of Violets
as you once did by writing
she once took a step
outside the city
self again
Lydia
Letter Accompanying a Gift
the Shark King
his memory of stars
Dear Revised
the first frost caught me
dilly-dallying with a sweater
the Queen of Violets
winter without it
a hole cut in one night
I could protect you
against the north wind
love has tamed me
it has kept me with a bomb
chained to my chair
the Shark King has fallen
in love
the result, mother
you may even put in
an order for a muffler
your own
the Queen of Violets
what was her last memory
of me
a bottle of water
awaits
the King of Sharks
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Autumn 2009 / Spring 2012
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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SCOTT METZ ant ant ant ant ant nine
November 17, 2011 § 1 Comment
A Sealed Jar Of Mustard Seeds
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bits of found objects that hole she left in me
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up among the dawn stars her dreaming hand
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falling through my side of the story blood red spring
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it’s always either the ocean or a mountain with her
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ants have found the freshness last night’s lightning
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weed it openly challenging the war czar
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an illusion of green the caterpillar’s comment
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peony night i lift the mask by the tip of its nose
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i say yes sir to the rattlesnake sign
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from pistils sky scrapers covered in vaseline
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new myths crawling slowing into the old heat
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autumn leaf already i am attached
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last of the ice he enters the apocalypse before me
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meadow speaking the language she dreams in
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the fog returns my carbon footprint
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entering through the back door eaters of light
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a comma attached to the tip of the flowering branch
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without permission part of me starts to bloom
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still cold the taste of the fan
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abandoned by an insect full moon and i
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last of the fireflies in my small intestines
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our silence fogs the window city inside us
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at the very edge of it all saplings
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winter day barely one language
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green noise the cicada can’t hear it
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the blood rushing through my blowhole winter stars
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a god that never noticed me before the peony shadow
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sometime today i’m bound to grow another string
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bright thick moss the violence in me
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a sealed jar of mustard seeds swift moving clouds
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sometimes the wind lifts up its wing to read
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invading another land crow caw
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trees almost bare touching you
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letting the lightning inside elephant cherry blossom
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daffodil scent no longer in the elevator
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the aftertaste of snowflakes pushing away
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speaking up peonies in my synapses
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inside a hotel of runaways glass elevator
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a dried up grain of rice clinging to the black sea
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perfume on my fingertips from the counter fading moon
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is it the wind god reminding me of her breasts
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coastal blossom the opposite of america
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what would the cicada think quiet nights
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could be her could be a firefly
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thru an eyehole the crow leaves a sea of skulls
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the leaf’s erotic story circling the hawk
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winter night she knowingly reveals another arm
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the war awakens the face of an insect in the mirror
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among the keys i took off black sesame seed
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asleep her fingers move on their own over moss
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the old train tracks end a nightmare of trees
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another day of snow my jurassic layer
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the only sound that’s come out of me all day firefly
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at this point i just assumed they come alive at night
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the string attached to me unraveling bare branches
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far enough into it dyslexic spring
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the sound of water i enter the spider’s dream
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walrus with its mouth wide open war statistics
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outweighed by the butterfly’s thought
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the word god being eaten by a field of robins
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