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Issue #162 March 7, 2015, University Hill, Boulder
Haiku by Susan Evans, Sara Benson, Patrick Lynn, Jonathan Machen. Photos by Jon
sculpted by teeth
blue wad of gum now resting
on snow-dampened cedar
spring thaw
surrounded by birdsong, but
where are the little buggers
to be still in time
how far do you have to walk
one hour, fifty steps
from the frat house
legal pot smoke drifts out
across the school playground
this snow covered hill
finally arriving to
body relaxing
another blue wad
of discarded gum next to
trashed out scraper brush
appreciating
nothing to do but eat my
ham and cheese omelette
freezing and thawing
even the best-laid asphalt
must come to an end
I need to breathe in
friendship and poetry
on this sunny day
haiku reverie
broken by text from the wife
to get broccoli
surrounded by blue
a loudly purring dove
points the black seed of its eye
at me
slowly sinking in
reality of my friend's
taking her own life
no word for the color
of this spruce tree
or how i feel about it
snow blanket on couch
flopped over in the alley
icicles taking nap
chirping, chirping
a couple walk by talking of spring
more chirping
a white folding chair
tossed catywampishly down
snowy white driveway
proliferation
of so many haiku poems
empty parking lot
swing set
beneath each motionless seat
a motionless shadow in the snow
empty parking lot
echoes of raven calling
wish I had some salt
underneath the crust
snow turns to water & moves
a liquid serpent
plastic Safeway bag
gracefully tumbles along
college avenue
snow on the chapel
a shroud of fast-melting snow
dampens the service
The old snow melting
Is nothing more a than a clock
Drip, drip, tic, toc, drip
half my lifetime ago
our kitten knocked your basil seedlings
off that window ledge
Every single year
Winter gives way to spring
Oh, the slush of it.
the college co-eds
shoveling drunken snow castle
of meager sidewalk
the sun is out, snow melting,
still i'm alone on the street
with crows
Haiku by Susan Evans, Sara Benson, Patrick Lynn, Jonathan Machen. Photos by Jon
sculpted by teeth
blue wad of gum now resting
on snow-dampened cedar
spring thaw
surrounded by birdsong, but
where are the little buggers
to be still in time
how far do you have to walk
one hour, fifty steps
from the frat house
legal pot smoke drifts out
across the school playground
this snow covered hill
finally arriving to
body relaxing
another blue wad
of discarded gum next to
trashed out scraper brush
appreciating
nothing to do but eat my
ham and cheese omelette
freezing and thawing
even the best-laid asphalt
must come to an end
I need to breathe in
friendship and poetry
on this sunny day
haiku reverie
broken by text from the wife
to get broccoli
surrounded by blue
a loudly purring dove
points the black seed of its eye
at me
slowly sinking in
reality of my friend's
taking her own life
no word for the color
of this spruce tree
or how i feel about it
snow blanket on couch
flopped over in the alley
icicles taking nap
chirping, chirping
a couple walk by talking of spring
more chirping
a white folding chair
tossed catywampishly down
snowy white driveway
proliferation
of so many haiku poems
empty parking lot
swing set
beneath each motionless seat
a motionless shadow in the snow
empty parking lot
echoes of raven calling
wish I had some salt
underneath the crust
snow turns to water & moves
a liquid serpent
plastic Safeway bag
gracefully tumbles along
college avenue
snow on the chapel
a shroud of fast-melting snow
dampens the service
The old snow melting
Is nothing more a than a clock
Drip, drip, tic, toc, drip
half my lifetime ago
our kitten knocked your basil seedlings
off that window ledge
Every single year
Winter gives way to spring
Oh, the slush of it.
the college co-eds
shoveling drunken snow castle
of meager sidewalk
the sun is out, snow melting,
still i'm alone on the street
with crows
solo/group kukai
drawing/writing/photography
jonathan machen
drawing/writing/photography
jonathan machen