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slight breeze <\/p>\n I see only sky David Watts (again) arrived to poetry mid-life, expanded into short stories, NPR commentary, novels and now haiku. Formally trained as a musician and medical doctor. Lecturer in poetry and in the humanistic values of medicine. \n Invisible ink Turning it to red Tongues & Tributaries<\/strong> Number NYC Tim Russow earned a B.A. in English from Boise State University. His poetry is published in the BSU English Department\u2019s newsletter Wit\u2019s End, The Cabin Literary Center\u2019s WITA: Nerve, Military Experience and the Art, and Narrative Northeast.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Fall-purpled bracts\u2014 sunned slight breeze a boat separates from the dock naked by the window she is draped in street light and rain a walk in the rain body prints in the bed back home since I moved to California the birds sing of Texas the sound of a bell crawls over the [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11802","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11802"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11802\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na boat separates
\nfrom the dock
\n
\nnaked by the window
\nshe is draped in street light
\nand rain
\n
\na walk in the rain
\nbody prints in the bed
\nback home
\n
\nsince I moved
\nto California the birds
\nsing of Texas
\n
\nthe sound of a bell
\ncrawls over the hills
\nevening twilight
\n
\nthe moon presses down
\non the wetlands
\nmist rises
\n
\nDavid Watts\u2019s publications include seven books of poetry, three collections of short stories, two mystery novels, seven western novels, a Christmas memoir, and several essays. He is a physician, musician and past Radio\/TV personality. His haiku have appeared in Hedgerow, Modern Haiku, Creatrix, The Bamboo Hut<\/em> and Akitsu Quarterly<\/em> among others.
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\n
\nEight dollars an hour
\nCan you feed your kids with that?
\nCan they live on dust?
\n
\nEarth is fine. It\u2019s us,
\nWe\u2019re the sick ones. Greed chops up
\nour veins like carrots.
\n
\nWhen I fell in love,
\nit was forever. Blessing?
\nCurse? Rug and ceiling.
\n
\nI like being a
\nhomosexual. I like
\nthe sun. And darkness.
\n
\nIssa and I on a train.
\nNo depot, no arrival,
\nmany opening buds.
\n
\nThat\u2019s me, tied to the
\ntrain track screaming\u2014until I
\nsee the train is clouds.
\n
\nDavid Bowie died.
\nHis songs visit me. We have
\niced tea on the porch.
\n
\nSpring in a coffin
\nlooks fresh, yet dead. I touch
\nthe corpse and wait.
\n
\nKenneth Pobo also has a new chapbook coming out called Lavender fire, Lavender Rose.<\/em>
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\n
\nThe Chickens <\/strong>
\n
\nBecause
\n
\nbaking blackberry muffins
\non a fall afternoon
\n
\ndepends so much
\nupon thoughts
\n
\nof your neighbor\u2019s bantam rooster
\nHamlet
\n
\n& his tawny sister
\nNugget
\n
\noh tiny dinosaurs
\nwith blue feet!
\n
\nhow they strut alongside
\nthe quiet road
\n
\nuncrossed
\n& sleekening
\n
\nin the low sun\u2019s
\ngold
\n
\nStephanie L. Harper is a recently transplanted Oregonian living in Indianapolis, IN. Harper is the author of the chapbooks This Being Done and The Death\u2019s-Head\u2019s Testament. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Slippery Elm Literary Journal, Panoply, Whale Road Review, Moonchild Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly,<\/em> and elsewhere.
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\n
\nthe geese
\na flight path
\n
\nsheltering in place\t\t\t\t\t\t+
\nparking tickets fluttering
\non windshields
\n
\na blizzard swirls
\naround the redbird tree
\nsnowglobe
\n
\nthrowing away
\nthe colored tinsel
\nI rethink old ideas
\n
\nwalking home
\nthe sound of pickets
\nwhite xylophone
\n
\nafter the divorce
\nshe speaks
\nin singular mode
\n
\npower outage
\nthis silence
\nshould have a name
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\n
\nhow lonely it is to be feared
\nby cheerful birds\u2014
\nhawk atop fencepost
\n
\nearly spring\u2014
\noak trees budding
\nyellow as the sun
\n
\na brown finch call\u2026
\nfrom the opposing cedar hill
\na return greeting
\n
\nfading world\u2014
\nshadows of the hills
\nduring sunset
\n
\nhouse finch
\ncalm as the wind-swept cedar
\nsplashes water on its wings
\n
\nin a dark place
\na bluebonnet rises
\nfrom dead leaves
\n
\nin the shape of a scythe
\nthe day moon waits
\nfor nightfall
\n
\nLuke Levi graduated from Texas State University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. His haiku can be found in Humana Obscura’s<\/em> spring\/summer 2021 issue. You can often find him sitting outside, listening to birds singing in the Texas Hill Country.
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\n
\nmy morning coffee
\nI sketch the eyes of god
\nthrough empty cups
\n
\nthis itch to slither
\npith of stars,
\nslung like a sling-
\nshot from the cosmos
\n
\nPamela Gemme is a poet, political activist, and and the art editor of the forthcoming Essential Voices Anthology Borderless Books WVU. She lives in Boston Massachusetts., Recent or forthcoming publications include The American Journal of Poetry, Haiku Journal, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Heliotrope Anthology, J Journal, Eclipse Literary Journal, The Ghazal Page<\/em> and many others.
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\n
\nSunburn<\/strong>
\n
\nCenter piece, middle
\nBrother, you left an
\nIncomplete poem
\n
\nOr should I say my
\nMemory is partial,
\nThe heart of it gone
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\n <\/em>
\nMiami Youth Fair
\nBlue ribbon winner,
\nHigh school haiku, just
\n
\nSeven syllables \u2013
\nReader, I tried, I
\nCannot finish it
\n
\nBill Hollands holds degrees from Williams College, Cambridge University, and the University of Michigan. He is a teacher and poet in Seattle, where he lives with his husband and their son. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rattle, Hawai`i Pacific Review, The Summerset Review, 3Elements, PageBoy,<\/em> and elsewhere.
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\n
\nRust and rage like stars
\nAnd they say this life is hard
\nA bright tangled space
\n
\nStrewn
\n
\nCut and recycle
\nA kinetic parity
\nLike a homonym
\n
\nIndex
\n
\nWhat it looks to me
\nTallow sharp and diminished
\nArdor blue index
\n
\nEpithet
\n
\nGenus and species:
\nA transitive politic
\nNo-name epithet
\n
\nPandemic
\n
\nDownright existent
\nBig business behind closed doors
\nPandemic discourse<\/p>\n
\n
\nJazz, New York City:
\nThe rot iron beat glaring
\nLike autumn in swing
\n
\nAffect
\n
\nBright as the noon sun
\nOn-kilter and somatic
\nPretense, strike me down
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\n
\ndew prays up, prismatic: dark
\ngreen understory.
\n
\nAutumn hydrangea\u2014
\nblooms browned, dried in clusters: song
\na bright dead chorus.
\n
\nStreets gingko golden\u2014
\nOctober-heady light: loss
\nseems impossible.
\n
\nVioleta Garcia-Mendoza is a Spanish-American poet, writer, and photographer. She is a member of Carlow University\u2019s Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops and a reader for Split Rock Review\/Press. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Peatsmoke, The Dewdrop,<\/em> and Saint Katherine Review. Violeta lives with her family in Western Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n
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