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Issue #170, November 10, 2018, Walden Ponds, Boulder, CO
Issue #169, May 28, 2018, Bolder Boulder 10K Memorial Day Race, Boulder, CO
Issue #168, July 9-23, 2017, Yosemite and Emigrant Wilderness, CA; Carson River,
Issue #167, October 8-10, 2017, Spudfest, Carbondale, Colorado
Issue #166, April 10, 2016, Eldorado Springs State Park, Eldorado Springs, Colorado
Issue #165, January 22, 2016, Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, Colorado.
Issue #164, September 24, 2015, Bachelor Party, Longmont and Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Issue #163, September 2, 2015, Golden, Colorado
Issue #162, March 7, 2015, University Hill, Boulder.
Issue #161, February 7, 2015, Coot Lake, Boulder, Colorado.
Issue #160, December 11, 2011: NCAR Mesa, Boulder, Colorado.
Issue #159, August 2011: Fossil Ridge Wilderness, Colorado.
Issue #158, June 2011: Haiku and photographs for the Eating Recovery Center's New Partial Hospitalization Program Facility.
Issue #157, Chautauqua, Boulder, CO, January 30, 2011
Issue #156, Boulder Valley Ranch Open Space, Boulder, CO, 2010
Issue #155, La Garita Wilderness, Colorado, July, 2010
Issue #154, Mt. Sanitas, Boulder, March 14, 2010, 2010
Issue #153, Community Plaza, Boulder, February 6, 2010
Issue #152, Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, April 26, 2009
Issue #151, North Boulder Open Space/Wildfire, January 11, 2009
Issue #150, Arches, Canyonlands and Boulder County, Nov/Dec 2008
Issue #149, Eating Recovery Center haiku - Collection, November 2008
Issue #148, Night-ku, Boulder, Colorado, October 14, 2008.
Issue #147, Fourmile Canyon, Boulder, Colorado, October 11, 2008.
Issue #146, National Center for Atmospheric Research, September 14, 2008.
Issue #145, San Francisco, California, July 30, 2008.
Issue #144, Great Sand Dunes and Los Alamos, New Mexico, June, 2008.
Issue #143, Evening-ku, Mapleton Mobile Home Park, June, 2008.
Issue #142, Ute Trail and Range View Trail, April 13, 2008.
Issue #141, Gregory Canyon/Chautauqua, February 10, 2008
Issue #140, Betasso Preserve, Fourmile Canyon and environment, December 2007-February 2008
Issue #139, Guy Hill, Colorado, November 11, 2007
Issue #138, Community Gardens, Boulder, Colorado, August 19, 2007
Issue #137, Rito Alto Lake, Sangre De Christo Wilderness, Colorado, July 11-17, 2007
Issue #136, spring into summer, Mt. Toll, Betasso Preserve and 4th of July trail, May-June, 2007.
Issue #135, Indian Peaks/James Peak wilderness, Boulder Farmers' Market, April, 2007.
Issue #134, Fourmile Canyon and Betasso Preserve, March 4, 2007.
Issue #133, Settlers Park, Boulder Creek, January 2007.
Issue #132, New Mexico, Bandelier, Tsankawi and Los Alamos, November 2006.
Issue #131, Spudfest, Carbondale and Chautauqua, October 2006.
#130, Front Range Autumn: Denver Botanic Gardens, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Great American Beer festival; September, 2006.
#129, Meadow Park, Lyons, Colorado, August 13, 2006
#128, Emigrant Wildernes, California, July 22-August 2, 2006
#127, Diamond Lake trail, Crater Lake and the Boulder Thursday Night Cruiser ride, Colorado, June-July 2006
#126, Carbondale and Boulder, Colorado, May 2006
#125, Anne U. White Trail, Boulder, Colorado, April 15, 2006
#124, Boulder Open Space, March 4, 2006
#123, Birthday/Birth-ku, Boulder, Colorado, January 2006
#122, White River National Forest, December 16-18, 2005
#121, Boulder Foothills and Guinn Mountain, December 2-9, 2005
#120, Betasso Preserve, November, 20, 2005
#119, Eldorado Canyon, November 2005
#118, James Peak Wilderness - Pumpkins - Rockies game, October, 2005
#117, Heil Ranch, Boulder, August 28, 2005
#116, Wetterhorn Basin, Uncompahgre Wilderness, Colorado, August 4-9, 2005.
#115, Indian Peaks Wilderness - Arapaho Bay Campground, July 1-4, 2005.
#114, Boston, Massachusetts, June 19-24, 2005.
#113, Highland Lakes, Texas, June 17-19, 2005.
#112, Memorial Day/Bolder Boulder/Lions Gulch, Colorado, May 29-31, 2005
#111, Great Sand Dunes National Park, May 8-9, 2005
#110, Chautauqua open space, Boulder, April 24, 2005
#109, Ice, snow and flowers, spring 2005
#108, Anne U. White Trail, April 3, 2005
#107, Polar Star Hut, March 3-5, 2005
#106, Margy's Hut, February 11-13, 2005
#105, Brainard Lake, Colorado, January 23, 2005
#104, California and New Mexico, December 22-31, 2004
#103, Walker Ranch/Eldora, December 4, 2004
#102, Arapahoe Peak/Salida, November 3, 2004
#101, Anderson Farms, Erie, CO October 10, 2004
#100, South Zapata Lake, September 3-6, 2004
#99, Denver Botanic Gardens, August 30, 2004
#98, Avalanche Basin, Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, August 19-23, 2004
#97, Thailand, July 26-August 7, 2004
#96, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, July 21-25, 2004
#95, Dalat, Saigon and HCMC, Vietnam, July 17-20, 2004
#94, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Dalaat, Vietnam, July 14-16, 2004
#93, My Son, Vietnam, July 11-13, 2004
#92, Hoi An, Vietnam, July 9-10, 2004
#91, Cat Ba Island, Vietnam, July 7-8, 2004
#90, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 3-6, 2004
#89, Wedding-Ku, June 18-20, 2004
#88, Bolder Boulder 10k road race, Boulder, May 31, 2004
#87, Anne U. White trail, Boulder, Colorado, May 9, 2004
#86, Mendocino, California, April 17-19, 2004
#85, Escalante Wilderness, March 24-29, 2004
#84, Sawhill Ponds, March 7, 2004
#83, Betasso Preserve/Mesa trail, February 21-22, 2004
#82, Ski Tales, February 5-8, 2004
#81, Coot Lake, Boulder, Colorado, February 1, 2004
#80, Base Ten Birthday, January 17, 2004
#79, Pajarito Plateau, December 22-29, 2003
#78, San Isabel National Forest, CO, December 19-21, 2003
#77, Pearl St. Mall, Boulder, December 18, 2003
#76, Roofrip, October 28-November 14, 2003
#75, Beer-ku, Boulder, CO October 25, 2003
#74, Night-ku, Boulder, CO October 17, 2003
#73 Spudfest, October 3-5, 2003
#72 Susan's Cabin, September 20-21, 2003
#71 Community Gardens, Boulder, CO September 14, 2003
#70 Kelly Lake, Rawah Wilderness, August 30-September 1, 2003
#69 Sandbeach Lake, August 9, 2003
#68 Folks Festival, August 17, 2003
#67 Cache la Poudre River, August 3, 2003
#66 Sangre de Christo July 25-28, 2003
#65 Red Rocks - Dead shows July 8-9, 2003
#64 Maroon Bells Wilderness, June 2003
#63 Bolder Boulder, May 26, 2003
#62 Gross Reservoir, May 24, 2003
#61 Poem from Bhutan by Sanjay, April 30 -May 5, 2003
#60 China Part 10, Guilin and Yangshao, April 20-22, 2003
#59 China Part 9, Shigu and Zhongdian, April 18-19, 2003
#58 China Part 8, Lijiang, April 16-17, 2003
#57 China Part 7, Dali, April 15, 2003
#56 China Part 6, Dali, April 14, 2003 2003
#55 China Part 5, Kunming, April 12-13, 2003
#54 China Part 4, Tongli and Hangzhou, April 10-11, 2003
#53 China Part 3, Zhouzuang and Suzhou, April 8-9, 2003
#52 China Part 2- Shanghai, April 6-7, 2003
#51 China Part 1 - (Austin), March 31-April 5, 2003
#50 Walden Ponds Bird Refuge, March 22, 2003
#49 Settler's Park, Boulder,CO, February 16, 2003
#48 Post Protest retreat, February 15, 2003
#47 Colorado Springs War Protest, February 15, 2003
#46 Breckenridge Snow Sculpture festival, February 1, 2003
#45 Western Stock Show and Rodeo, January 12, 2003
#44 Los Alamos/Cumbres Pass, December 23-28,2002
#43 Eiseman Hut, December 13-15, 2002
#42 Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder November 23,2002
#41 NCAR, Boulder October 27,2002
#40 War Protest, Denver, October 26, 2002
#39 White Rim, Canyonlands, October 18-23, 2002
#38 Spudfest, Carbondale September 28, 2002
#37 Red Rocks, Morrison August 31, 2002
#36 Four Mile historic park, Denver August 25, 2002
#35 Flatirons Crossing, Broomfield August 17, 2002
#34 RockyGrass Bluegrass Festival, Lyons July 2002
#33 Eben G. Fine Park, Boulder July 2002
#32 Gates Of Lodore, Utah June-July 2002
#31 Summer Solstice, Santa Fe June, 2002
#30 International Festival/Farmers' Market, June 15, 2002
#29 Bolder Boulder, May 27, 2002
#28 Sanjay/Jala wedding, May 24, 2002
#27 Boulder Public Library, May 12, 2002
#26 Kinetics Race, Boulder, Co, May 4, 2002
#25 Great Sand Dunes, April 27, 2002
#24 Canyonlands, March 25-29, 2002
#23 Community Gardens, April 13, 2002
#22 Mexico/USA Soccer match, April 4, 2002
#21 Anne U. White trail, March 10, 2002
#20 Tenth Mountain Hut, February 21-23, 2002
#19 Mary Jane ski day, February 11, 2002
#18 Chautauqua Park, Boulder, January 27, 2002
#17 Raggeds backpack, August, 2001
#16 Oregon, July, 2001
#15 Pajarito Plateau, December 24-29, 2001
#14 Tenth Mountain Hut, December 21, 2001
#13 N.Boulder open space, December 9, 2001
#12 Shanahan Ridge, November 3, 2001
#11 Pump-ku, October 27, 2001
#10 Sunshine Canyon, September 8, 2001
#9 Pearl St. Mall August 27, 2001
#8 Spanish Peaks, July 2, 2001
#7 Neighborhood Night-Ku, June 8, 2001
#6 Farmer's market, Boulder,May 19, 2001
#5 Rabbit Mountain, April 14, 2001
#4 Walden Ponds, March 17, 2001
#3 Marshall Mesa, February 2, 2001
#2 Denver International Airport, February 2000
#1 Denver Art Museum, February 6, 1999
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Issue #112, Bolder Boulder Memorial Day run, 2005. Haiku and photographs by Jonathan Machen
hastening their demise
runners pound asphalt
faces revealing pain
almost at the end
most are running, some walking
take your headsets off!
memorial day
the USMC runs by
chanting slogans
smiles and laughter
everybody sweating now
determination
i like the feeling
of waking up
in the middle of the race
redwing blackbirds alarmed
their morning marsh-ramblings
interrupted by that rock band
playing before the thousands of runners
the wheelchair racers,
making their way to the starting gate
broad, empty pre-dawn streets
the thick grass water-soaked
at the edge of the narrow corridor
lining the race avenue
thousands of pre-race faces
we are all up before 7
excitement in the air
some running,
some preserving their knees
the frenzy of leg-pounding
on rain-washed asphalt streets
in may when Baghdad
brought to convulsions
in an ongoing insurgent war,
the european union in disarray
Robert MacNamara warning us
of nuclear annihilation
and the secret government men
who walk with
football-shaped briefcases
containing missile launch codes
much enthusiasm
many endorphins
the band plays by conoco
street side trombone players
large raindrops on the blue iris
people smiling, calling out names
go 164! thousands of people
who have decided to make
a personal fitness commitment
runners sweat at the last mile
a band of Hawaiian hula dancers
runs past yellow-shirt sudanese
at 9.1 km the college jazz band
drowns out the grunge metal
on the next block
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