Issue #44 Los Alamos, New Mexico and Cumbres Pass, New Mexico. haiku: Jonathan Machen, Nick Brown, Martha Flannery, Yadi Flannery, Bear Sahlfeld
photographs, drawings and layout:Jonathan Machen
hugging her presents
she exhibits six-year old
holiday spirit
frozen santa waves
from in front of his well-lit
suburban chalet
holding her breath
she watches grandma open
her hand-painted gift
instead of skiing
i spend an hour digging
for my submerged pole
family rendezvous
half-way down the red dot trail
past the petyroglyphs
as we leave the film
bag lady claims the foyer
hoping to stay warm
sanwiched between
two pickups with snowmobiles
i head for the pass
unsuitable talk
about the donner party
out here in the woods
cracking morning fire
takes me into a long trance
after seeing red sunrise
dark, cold nighttime hut
nicholas speaking in tongues
firelight blazes for moments
it will change the mood
if i read this haiku
while you are talking
diamonds in the snow
disappear when i reach for them
there when i go past
candles burn slowly
melting wax on lincoln's head
near avodado
sign says falling rocks
but i hope for shooting stars
in the sky above
it was five below this morning
said the cop
as he wrote my fifty-seven dollar ticket
angry about world
go scream in deep forest
bring myself back home
no-one looks at me
are you not my good friend now?
turn bright headlamp off
totem, given in love
owl takes flight to underworld
sara fingering her memory
city's sulphur glow
from one-hundred miles away
like a false orange dawn
solo/group kukai drawing/writing/photography jonathan machen