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Notes from the Gean: Haiku Monthly, June, 2013

no.20

June 2013


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CONTENTS: Haiku p.4 Haiku p.5 Death in summer p.6 Wild flower meadow p.7 Tanka p.8 Haiku p.9 Love p.10 No future p.11 Up on p.12 Tanka & Haiku p.13 Music to be Played for Drinkers p.14 Haiku p.15 Moon beggar p.16 Haiku p.17 Haiku p.18 BAAAAH p.19 Lips/kiss p.20 Haiku p.21 Lullaby p.22 Haiku p.23 Haiku p.24 Haiku p.25 My inner voice p.26 In the dark p.27 Sub – bass p.28 Haiku p.29 Stone p.30 Haiku p.31 Back Page p.32


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Helen Buckingham – England


your lit match the bridge I cross anyway

Jennifer Thompson – USA

encore one click of the Zippo I'm a rock star again

S.M. Abeles – USA


Death in summer This is the end, beautiful friend, the end. . . —Jim Morrison’s thin baritone from the Doors’ first and best album of nearly 50 years ago—He’s buried in Paris—in Pere Lachaise cemetery, in the faster company of Balzac, Chopin, Oscar Wilde, and Heloise and Abelard. Morrison: dead of a drug overdose at 27, same age as Mama Cass, Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Curt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and a handful of others—all wrecked on the shoals by drugs. No need for drugs or even booze on a day like this: when a fume of poppies from flower-sellers on Rue de Repos makes me think of the sleepy fields of Oz. Laughter and flowers up and down the Rue: and for syncopation, a pale day moon becoming tipsy as, chilling at an outdoor café, I swirl it to and fro in my glass of chardonnay. comforting the dead the quiet breathing of rain

Steven Carter – USA


Beth McFarland – Germany


no questions for the flight of a crow, why worry about the destination of my heart?

M. Kei – USA

tonight a friend crossed over the ocean he didn't see coming leaving me to wonder about what poets do

Michael McClintock – USA


last kiss goodbye who knew

Michael Morell – USA

full blown rose on the egg carton its expiration date

Karen Cesar – USA


Brendan Slater – England


up on up ward to ward to day to morrow to o to night to p the circus to π a circle in space

Jack Galmitz – USA


create a space suit and a matching rocket . . . fly here, please and take me traveling where no-one’s ever been

Kirsty Karkow – USA

spring fling loblolly splooge in my chardonnay

Terri L. French – USA


Music to be Played for Drinkers a broken sequence in D minor tenuous timbre pitched forward unchained keys jangle in her purse crystal shatters at the speed of sound edges of light slice blue lemons stream of words doubles my awareness disharmony refracted midnight crisis manifest in atonalities someone entirely different marking time in mirrored hallways the detectives show their badges and weep Gene Doty – USA


ragged dawn the frayed edge of a promise

S.M. Abeles – USA

polished smooth by poetry —the rough moon

Sondra J. Byrnes – USA


Alegria Imperial – Canada


Fullmoon . . . scared that if they picked me up I'd rattle

Helen Buckingham – England

Codeine— what breeze there is rides a rizla

Sara Winteridge – England


cocooned in fog . . . fishing lines thrum a blue guitar

Karen Cesar – USA

in railroad glass the ghost of a man in a low-slung hat

S.M. Abeles – USA


Kath Abela Wilson - USA


lips/kiss seeing your lips it returns my own lips in the dream red, so lipstick red I nearly kiss the wine glass you were the kissing one (I’ll kiss Zina for you)

Susan Diridoni – USA


lilacs everything’s flying but me

Adrian Bouter – Netherlands

behavior of high clouds die on the wing

Susan Diridoni – USA


Veronika Zora Novak – Canada


patience and spit— picking ants off the chewing gum


mackerel sky . . . a batch of fish flatten in the smoker

Kirsty Karkow – USA


the white violets by the side of the path after the last snow

Colin Will – Scotland

the smell of gorse— spring frost cracking beneath my feet

Michael O'Brien – Scotland


under cellar stairs where dandelions are made

Kath Abela Wilson – USA

broken bones & the ideals that caused them

Robert Epstein – USA


Gerda Förster – Netherlands & Simone K. Busch – Germany/Japan


Sub-bass new tenants downstairs their cooking is Danish the one that's home all day likes machine-made house-music with a deep sub-bass must be loud I never heard anything from down there before not even from those who at least once a week came to apologize for the screaming baby we hope it didn't bother you I didn't hear anything I never asked if they heard me she was weird he was a dog and her mother had the final say she moved he drank and eventually moved too not being able to live alone in this godforsaken village

rain inside the rain a hole from my youth still in my pocket

Johannes S. H. Bjerg – Denmark


our silence the entropy of words on tv

Dietmar Tauchner – Austria

grandad’s hat telling it as it is

Stella Pierides – Germany/UK


a short tail on the young dog— flies know this


sit lotus pose contemplate how to stand up

Ozzie Nogg – USA


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