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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

94 Peter Newton95 MG96 Susan Diridoni97 jshb

Graphics/asemic works by Marco Giove-nale http://differx.tumblr.com/and Johannes S. H. Bjerg

Editors:

Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg

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