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Volume 8, Issue 3
Flower Haiku
September comes / a gypsy moth / in the sweet clematis / toadflax / glittering by the highway underpass / syringes / goldenrod and pokeberry / a door…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Tree Haiku
at the root of the red pine the absence of mountain / sowing / the wind / Bradford pear / hurricane remnants / the weeping willow / now a Van Gogh /…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Stalking the Garden Sunbird
In the gloss of morning’s first breath, / a sunbird blurs through the bougainvillea, / a sudden thought in flight.
Volume 8, Issue 3
Our Torchbearers
They were humane, full of promises / When they came campaigning / Shedding crocodile tears to our plights / Of lacking this, lacking that / They promised…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Ophelia Talketh Back
after Shakespeare and Atwood / A likely madness: the boy-king unwed, / unfeeling but in his search for his father’s / revenge.
Volume 8, Issue 3
French Doll
On a foggy night at the film festival, / I walk on a yellow carpet of crisping ginkgo leaves, / slipping quietly from the platform of night. / A little…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Unfinished Exit
I keep thinking / about the time in high school / when you drew / me / a map of the city, / I still have it somewhere. / It was so easy / to get lost / in…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Someone Call Security
This life I’ve lived is sheltered—no rope / around the neck, no gun, no burning. / No sudden knife to leave a gash / through those I love.
Volume 8, Issue 3
Sustenance
Because tattoos are associated / with gangsters, I’m not allowed / in the public onsen / of the hotel in Hakone, only the smaller / private one—for me and…
Volume 8, Issue 3
The Queen in the Mirror
Smash the mirror of your soul / with your hauteur; / the flawless beauty of your queen / with a metal cup. / Let the quadrants of history / shatter with…
Volume 8, Issue 3
Abacus
Tidal flex and activation / of the ocean / pectoral: / water fingers scratching / in frictionless futility / at land’s ledge of sand. / The living magnet…