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Volume VII, Number 3: September, 2005. Editors’ Choices • Commentary • Index of Poets • |
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In Memory of Hank Dunlap March 15, 1932 - July 5, 2005 Hank Dunlap led a colorful and diversified life. He was a writer, a poet, and a haiku poet with five books to his credit. But he was so much more! Hank was a rodeo cowboy, an aero-space engineer, a bartender, and a deputy sheriff in Navajo County. He served in the Air Force during the Korean War, was a high school track coach, an ambulance driver, a fry cook, heavy equipment operator, goat herder, and, as he once wrote, “had a few jobs I’d rather forget.” Hank was one of the most honest, straightforward people I’ve ever met. His often self-deprecating sense of humor was at once hilarious and endearing. Hank gave of himself generously. He was a wonderful friend and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. — Christopher Herold
Haiku by Hank Dunlap sunlightin the tidepool — each grain of sand Sunday picnic — a butterfly selects deviled eggs descending notes of a canyon wren — sunset milky way — even the know-it-all speechless full moon — two lovers hugging one shadow my old dog his place at the fire vacant now |
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