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just dusk

the hush yields

    to crickets

 

 

 

   the lake laps

all night the same

   quiet thoughts

 

 

by Jim Kacian , from Presents of Mind “presents kacian”

(Katsura/Red Moon Press, 1996)

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  from dagosan: 

comparing aches 

before the show —

senior organ recital

                               [dag, 06-23-04, thanks r.n.]  

 

mirrors, mirrors

       drinking

with my bald spot

 from David G. Lanoue’s The Laughing Buddha  

sequel to the novel Haiku Guy.  Click to read Chapt. 1.

 

 

subway blues

strummin’ light

through the tunnel

 

by Pamela Miller Ness,  from pink light, sleeping

(Small Poetry Press, Concord, CA, 1998) to order see.

 

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  from dagosan: 

her dimpled smile! 

no exclamation point 

needed

                            [dag, 06-22-04, for k.g.]  

Click here to see the original photo-poem, from Open Window.

summer solstice —

a rack full of hats

at the barbershop

reading in bed

my pulse flickering

the lightly held bookmark

Click here to see the original, full-screen photo-poem.

From Open Window. an online collection of haiku and photographs

…………….. by Michael Dylan Welch

• from dagosan:

late-comers:

fireflies join

the solstice party

…………………………………………… [dag, 06-20-04]

dragonfly’s warmup stretch

         tail up

        tail down

 

 

borrowing an antler

     the butterfly

         rests

 

from David G. Lanoue’s The Laughing Buddha  

sequel to the novel Haiku Guy.  Click to read Chapt. 1.

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  by dagosan:

winding road —

constantly shifting

the sun visor

 

^^^^^^^^

high bridge:

clouds with trailers

right lane only

                     [dag, 06-19-04]

            

    from: Haiku Guy: a novel (Red Moon Press,

2000) by David G. Lanoue.  See our mini-review.

You can read the first two chapters here.

 

 

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  by dagosan:

summer’s here

worked up a sweat

sleeping

                                    [dag, 06-18-04]

   

    above the dusk

a twitter of sunlight

  from birds’ wings

 

by Jim Kacian , from Presents of Mind 

(Katsura/Red Moon Press, 1996).

 

 

train toward Baltimore

the setting sun

jumps the track

 

by Pamela Miller Ness from  pink light, sleeping

(Small Poetry Press, 1998), to order see

 

 

 

in the pink dusk

    with pimples–

face of the moon

 

by David G. Lanoue, from Haiku Guy: a novel 

(Red Moon Press, 2000)

 

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  from dagosan: 

it’s purple! it’s pink!

sunset inspires

             more bickering

                         [dag, 06-17-04]                                      

 

high on her swing

buccaneer with brown braids

searching for treasure

from her bedroom

the child banishes

snakes and skeletons

lush scent of lilacs

line the driveway from childhood

–mother calls me home

by Pamela Miller Ness, from driveway from childhood

(Small Poetry Press, Concord, CA, 1997). to order see .

• from dagosan:

email hugs

cyber kisses —
birthday party apart

the gift

of wrinkle-resistant genes:

big sister’s birthday

[dag, 06-16-04]

  yesterday‘s intro to Alice Frampton deserves an encore:

long dusty road:

I wait by the mailbox

for the cloud

watering the grass–

a smile from the man

who passes by

by Alice Frampton from New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku

  (Edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts, Red Moon Press, 2003)