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Bones - journal for contemporary haikuNo 11
November 15th 2016
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tho(lost)ght
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specimenscovered in graphiteyour hands
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end of summers rock and roll won’t help you now
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the next daya few more rockson the headstone
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an owl calls in the night 5 play
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reply: sleep ing pilll push(ng myBra in in too obliv ion e
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cool dawn the rabbit tastes the dew tastes the rabbit
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kattie shots on stars surrounding my moon
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the ruler’s statue laden with pigeon’s rain
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even the singed bromeliad forgives you
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blood work the salmon slips out of range
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Burnt in a bookshelfThe olive tree propheciesSurround the subway
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mostly composed of quartz or memory
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in the angel the animal the current reaches horizon
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before birth a dragonfly surfaces
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sorrow not sinking into language
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sun-scorched weedsthe stitches dissolving in my mouth
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stars on the lid of his future
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twenty years to get here – the lake and birdshave waited
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in the breeze of the day inside pastor
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Aleppo trees poking the sky with sticks
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this pinealways comes back to the trunk
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The Permanence of Paper fits nicelyin the recycle bin
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tiny flies furiously scrub a knife of light
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she laughs as the pink purple flowers of wild mint might
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i woke toholier than a preacher a dog barking
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O doSaid IUpheld
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homebounda plate of potato eyes screaming
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urn your favorite ocean
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stars mimicking the sound of shooting long ago
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new moon mischance I snooker myself on all colors
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return along a long line of points of no
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the superficial sleep of depths
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dry fall as immortal as possible
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cigarette after the slight of her shoulder blades taking flight
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just abovethis pothole -empty sky
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inutile bibelotsthroughout the B&Bceaseless crow cries
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desert gunshotthe pleistocene echoesbefore the holocene
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a grief ago almost borne
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when you werewhen meaning was wordedwith relics
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wind whorls fingerprint man-dust
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leaves break down a death sentence
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station dustdust to dust
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thick note script[antediluvian + ]
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eye of the storm blood shot
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aphrodisiac gallops to its vanishing point
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only the essence of bowl in the bowl
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stunning as only a warty face can be muscovy duck
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old surfer can’t wait for the storm surge
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paper birchbark curls back my hometown
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watching —the sparrowsthe clock
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rowing and resting the lake’s all autumn sun
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one click chicks dot com her scarlet sundress
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the limited life of my sacrificial anode
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deep rust where the analogy begins
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the aspirate heard in hate
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here as far as a star
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the rapture in a field of dew
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leaf & leaf shadow watered
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Ascension Sundayawake to the bellon the goat
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dental clinicCottage Lifewhile I hate
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always at the next corner my father and the wild wind
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herein the blue descent remainscells, stems
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first tall aster joined
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wind through falling leaves my bones unlike a sparrow’s
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a noose sewn from his wife’s hair winter begin
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moths & mourners braving the rain
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under a laburnum children botch a nursery rhyme
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an old dreamswinging from the jasper branch- zebras
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seeds dissolving into the shape of infinity
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aardvarks racing back ontoencyclopedia pages
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rebuilding the forgotten city- tide pool
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floating abovethe avalanche a string quartet
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sounding tonto a/the birdsong
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just falling short of the upper shadjam my tinnitus
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riding on the wind a few hundred mute e’s
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the shower head splutters Perseids
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equinox tipping Japan dream’s fade
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lightly autumn splitting apart
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clear cut --my stump of a triggerfinger
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hummingbird glitch in metadata meadow scramble
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overripe figs ...the rebelling seeds sproutas blue whales
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Sequences
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in the drip lineof someone else’sumbrella phrase
blood in the sunset dodging anotherdoomsday
deeper under the down fall
Band-aid handoutsthe lifespanof a politician
lights outwithout thinkingwe make our own power
Enigma Variations
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sulfuric accusations backfire
resurfacing shame embroidered past
gendered histories catalyze
every projection neon irony
dusted off a million DSM’s
dissertations materialize in sunshine in decay
scorched earth her gestures go high
neon stinging
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haiku
2 Alexander Joy3 Allyson Whipple4-5 Andrew Punk6-7 Ann Schechter8 Anna Cates9 MG10-11 Aparna Pathak12-13 Ava C. Cipri 14 Bernard Reed15-17 Brent Goodman18 jshb19-21 Cherie Hunter Day 22 Duncan Richardson23-25 Dan Schwerin26 Daryl Muranaka27 MG28-29 David Boyer30 Eddie Donoghue 31-32 Elizabeth Moura33-34 Elmedin Kadric35 jshb36 Engin Gülez37-39 Ernest Wit40 Gabriel Bates41 Gabriel Patterson42-43 George Swede
44-47 Hansha Teki48 MG49-51 Helen Buckingham52-53 Jennifer Hambrick54-58 john martone59 jshb60 Johnny Baranski61-62 Jonathan McKeown63-66 Joseph Aversano67-68 LeRoy Gorman69 Marcus Liljedahl70 Markeith Chavous71 marlene mountain72 MG73-74 Matthew Moffett75 Meik Blöttenberger76 Michael O’Brien77-81 Mike Andrelczyk82 Roland Packer83 jshb84-86 Shloka Shankar87 Stella Pierides88-89 Susan Diridoni90-91 Tony Burfield92 Victor Ortiz
sequences
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Editors:
Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg
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