Volume XXII, Number 2: June 2020
Haiku — page 8
dawn silence
on the first ripe mango
a bat bite
Lucky Triana
Malang, Indonesia
sky blue enough to bear the mourning dove's coo
Michele Root-Bernstein
East Lansing, Michigan
morning heat
more cows
than shade
Rick Tarquinio
Woodruff, New Jersey
two shadows
the headstones of parents
he never knew
Jeff Kressmann
Palatine, Illinois
washing the vase
a smell from the grave
on my fingers
Garry Eaton
Port Moody, British Columbia
Canada
desert's stillness—
the skin of a rattlesnake
basking in the sun
Goran Gatalica
Zagreb, Croatia
sand blowing
through a slot canyon
soon I will be gone
Victor Ortiz
Bellingham, Washington
thunderhead the beat of a peewit's wings
John Barlow
Ormskirk, England
just enough rain
to darken the scent
of the pine woods
Paul Chambers
Newport, Wales
backroad to church
a pine branch touching
the power line
Geoff M. Pope
Renton, Washington
The Heron's Nest XXII.2 (6-2020)