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No. 6March15, 2015

onesjournal for contemporary haiku

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shouting star

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casually

rewriting a frog

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in between ancient fears a new condom

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inside my bodysomeoneturned on the light

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[your crucifixion image goes here]

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mouth open at the rainbow’s stump

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counting star-bonesafter the lossof sunset wars

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stºne on

st0ne on

stOne

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you need a shell company maybe a conch

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tide pool rippling her biological clock

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Mastectomyshe wakes up alone.

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miles from anywhere the mushrooms kick in

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photo bombed post-traumatic stress disorder

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my head a swirl of starlings - i’m st / ill

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new snow –a junco’s anusrevealed

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a distant white mountain where external memory is stored

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samantha --reminding myselfform is emptiness

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Mannich reaction - - no drawing of millions tear-stained eyes

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in a landscape painting part of it

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election daypreparing the fermented ricekeeps us heard

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Euler’s numberyour litanyof unrepeatable excuses

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confirmation bias everywhere the glorious absence of gods

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assassinationrandom acts ofkindness

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first victims two flies copulate

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cloche hatmy grandmother in parisbefore everything

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leachedby bamboo nodesa hope serum

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killing fields the god whisperer

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endless sky telephone wires make it bearable

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wind turbine in waves as quiet as far

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stacking firewooda splinterfrom the Age of Steam

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susceptibility testing   h                ot   e    t   em   r   of   h  r   han             r                        e             d

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glacier valley                       we sharea lost child

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the window cleaner’s ladder leaves two small holes in the planet

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mitosis annawoods beyondyour reflection

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seasonlessI recognize a giantby its garbage

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biking with special forces -cyclops

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decades of carte blanche the bill bickering slides home

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monetizing downtime her make-believe lemonade stand

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it hovers somewherefumbled by children maybemy dying breath

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remnantsof an ancient warin the pre-dolphin era

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a baton whooshes in C#

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crnour

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talk of myths low sun smears the windscreen

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April hedged in apartment shaped financial instruments

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where the punctuation in a sea shell

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cameras flashing back at him Michelangelo’s ‘David’

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pillage

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clouds cementing migraine

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oxidation i can’t remember when

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out of Seisensui’s furoshiki an American octopus

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without her moondancing

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market stallsFather searchesfor a new spine

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ceiling tiles still ceiling tiles neck ultrasound

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sheeting rainvoices softeras i well

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the drone’s malfunction killed a man who killed a man who killed a man who […]

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Trinity the Bomb hijacked a religion

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my inevitable death mayflies

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the long parentheses of insomnia

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SeQuences /

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denatured lines

torpor crash a rumored beam of blue ice  thought spores my sodden head frogged  clogging mind-scapes some balls sized a hairbreadth  escorted to justice in lieu of de-neutered a queen bee  a bat murder journal-ed cathedral lie hedge torsos a ghost sky misshaped in thaw wedged between his incisors war missives  the language of buttons rephrased defense tactics  a dunce-capped tooth missing his crown passed on as rootless my denatured lines

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Tomorrow’s Leaf

in the predawn praying hush of silence

left behind the old dream footprints & I 

a bed flat on my back cold winter night

below the neon light a trembling flower

deeply into the wet tundra a happy sun

no homeless in the bird’s womb stones

slicing, slicing, me in half baby’s breath

spring buds into the morass of summer

still so awake anywhere else day moon

‘tween two sides of the river leaf boats

drifting into nowhere to go a rain song  

watered roots on earth tomorrow’s leaf

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map refolded    another world’s edge

another longitude to draw onto waves

further out    the horizon    on course

the me on a boat with sails

Magellan

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after chemo out of the car wash into the clouds adopting the pace of my father his father the river’s slow bend when everything was everything half my life ago bottom of the bucket list a stone with nowhere to skip

names we are givennames we take: Cloud Catcher

Cloud Catcher

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winter shears

holidays of deep winter ripping me

stalled xmas cards Sirius dog star dawdles

a quarter of pain memories metastasized

stitched by pain knitted brow

sheep not visiting my dreams

oceans not plover shores

sheep sheared synaptically

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index

2 Olivier Schopfer3 Richardt Gilbert4 Andrea Cecon5 Mark Levy6 Joy MacVane7 Helen Buckingham8 Alegria Imperial9 Debbie Strange10 eve luckring11 visual: Day Bonifide12 Bouwe brouwer13 Alexis Rotella14 John McManus15 Johnny Baranski16 Mark Holloway17 Donna Fleischer18 Markeith Chavous19 visual Day a stich20 Michelle Tennison21 Richard Gilbert22 ramona linke23 Joseph Aversano24 Ken Sawitri25 Deborah P Kolodji26 Mark Holloway27 visual Day Thinning of the ethical muscle28 Johnny Baranski29 Andrea Cecon30 Andrew O. Dugas31 Alegria Imperial32 Helen Buckingham

33 Lisa Espenmiller34 Joseph Aversano35 Mark E. Brager36 ramona linke37 visual Day Stent38 Bouwe brouwer39 Mark Holloway40 Richard Gilbert41 Ken Sawitri42 Susan Burch43 Susan Diridoni44 Peter Newton45 Patrick Doerksen46 Michelle Tennison47 visual Day Figvra 3148 Shloka Shankar49 Roland Packer50 Mark Holloway51 eve luckring52 Deborah P Kolodji53 Devin Harrison54 Debbie Strange55 Brian Robertson 56 Bouwe brouwer57 visual Day Busy Bone58 eve luckring59 Greg Longenecker60 John McManus61 Lisa Espenmiller62 Richard Gilbert63 Andrea Cecon64 Johnny Baranski65 Snibril Fray

66 Olivier Schopfer

sequences

68 Alegria Imperial69 Ernesto P. Santiago70 visual Day Inoculum71 Joseph Aversano72 Peter Newton73 Susan Diridoni74 visual Day Scan

Graphics by Cherie Hunter Day

Editors:

Aditya BahlAlan SummersJohannes S. H. Bjerg

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