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Bones - journal for contemporary haikuno. 8

November 15th 2015

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Singleku

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somewhere deep inside Pluto

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climate change the season turns diagrammatic

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tenth grade pulsating temple

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the inner life built of rubberized bricks

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the blowfish emojinobody uses :a fox dartsacross the road

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bending an article of faith into a bowtie

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. . . fessions con . . . lenten dusk

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WATERF

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candle tip -the son is onfire

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aquarium we swallow mother tongues

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brood xxiiiheavy in the corridorsa buried timeline

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The first day of fall- I walk with a cane now but I’m still in the world

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here without being here in the forest

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circling crows the weight of the subjunctive

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existing only in dreams avocados

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A-bomb mangafalling throughthe dead pixel

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left home

less scare crow

chimney

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because i leaveno DNA behind     Japanese maple

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charlie in every creasehe rollshis last note

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red shifting beyond the lipstick metaphor

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cor psee -

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onion as matador as passerby as houseguest

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truth serum of a three-quarter moon

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hei      ghts of fear ing grow this dow win my to walk side the from

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I like to think of blue as October as you

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blues harp the execution will not be televised

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movement outside the rhetorical question’s biodome

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if he stops the needles of an evergreen

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touching the dark sky a jellyfish is an architecture of loneliness

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typecast as a verb the moon tonight

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in darknessthe detective reducedto an orange glow

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fresh snow losing the concept of face

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sorrow the rain-slanted script

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doubt is my shepherd I seldom want

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aisle 17 god is buried everywhere

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the sea’s bitternesspassed on to heirsempty bones

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given: zero fox

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snow swirl the wit of her sneaker sole

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blue sailors   the strange eyes of a daughter

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teacher mouths dark matter

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ultimate Frisbeein the prison yardhippopotamus

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xmasexes

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mass shooting the breeze

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a little throne by the immensity

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geometricperfection of the beehive

& bulldozer

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Good Friday -the whiteness withina sparrow’s bones

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birding uscrows remember facesand actions

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down to the sea breezeearthworms and the childlessare identical

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At night you pass a building with one light on so you invent god

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duskshadows out oftheir bodies

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clearing outvinyl-lunged45

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a wordafter a wordat warafterwards

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armistice the l st p st

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bottled in a projectora nomad’s teethgo round and round

65CQencesences

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pied I’s Apollo pools a cacophony  broiler hiss twisting ohms into wounds  brains at the cooler a caustic prattle      loose screws cackling under the elm  the vandalized organ reverberates a stench  hatched ‘tween barbs sobbing eye-less tears doll heads  careening into night’s entrails the throats of sleep  the sky’s malignant blue beat by beat animal moans

walled-in because

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coal to steam to silicon to this

so much depends on the stability of perovskite

the smile of sun on each crystal

the mineral in search of a nickname

how about Lev    as in Lev Perovski

Lev thin layer upon thin layer

shepherding the Lev supply

painting the town Lev

Lev:  a photovotaic saga

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snipers line the aisles of the

supermarket one year for each

pint Mr Slater the meet and greet guy

is shot steroids three times a day

by armed police the shoplifter scraped

from the concrete every morning

after a roof over his head

all in this together

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filling in my landing card:same birth, same profession, same sex –same Freddy

after clearing customs full moon

London days... I take a long walk, and Keep to the Left

my shadow shadow of a young man ... London sun

Fitting Rooms - surrounded with dressesI wait for my wife

Ladies Footwear –I sit next to my wife surrounded with shoes

Wallace Collection dreary day- “The Laughing Cavalier”brightens my day

sipping Dewar’s old scotch Cheddar moon

London Vacation

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dew’s gathered rivers opaledin trellises of night the weightblooms as we’ve of the brokenwho’ve sown hearted mountain

felt penned absence kissesmountains walked errors madethe gypsy kid’s a butterfly pavilionoutstretched palm for our thumbs

square work

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the otherhe has a lean and hungry look

i thinktherefore it islight at last

alonealas alack at alla declension of nouns

postfixesthe lingering tasteof a death

brutalhow we come to burythe knives

a slice eachof crunchy cucumberon her eyes

coolness:the wrinkling skinof vision

the writingin the tissue fold longforgotten

War and Peace

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he a sweet breeze the celebration in his time

2 camel cigarettes unforgotten for him

colors where he lay dying his brightness between us

incense for deceased caresses me immediately

guitar sounding again in his room magnetic prayer

his heart finds the star-rooted song

star-rooted song

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iSINGLE KU

3 Gregory Longenecker4 Cherie Hunter Day 5 Helen Buckingham6 Michael Nickels-Wisdom7 Scott Terrill8 Sondra J. Byrnes9 Roland Packer 11 Agnes Eva Savich12 Aashika Suresh 13 Alegria Imperial14 Cherie Hunter Day 16 Jack Galmitz17 jonathan mckeown18 Mark E. Brager 20 Mike Andrelczyk 21 Roland Packer 22 Scott Terrill23 Peter Newton24 Maria Bonsanti 25 Helen Buckingham26 David McKee27 Engin Gülez29 Bill Cooper30 Cherie Hunter Day 31 Dave Read32 Jack Galmitz33 Johnny Baranski34 Michael Nickels-Wisdom

35 Julie Warther37 Scott Terrill38 Shloka Shankar 39 Mike Andrelczyk40 Mark E. Brager41 Gregory Longenecker42 Cherie Hunter Day43 Bob Lucky 44 Alegria Imperial46 Agnes Eva Savich47 Bill Cooper48 Eva Limbach49 Helen Buckingham50 Johnny Baranski51 Roland Packer52 Peter Newton53 Michael Nickels-Wisdom55 Matthew Moffett 56 Mark E. Brager 57 Cherie Hunter Day 58 Scott Terrill59 Jack Galmitz60 George Swede61 Helen Buckingham62 Hansha Teki63 Roland Packer 64 Scott Terrill

SEQUENCES

66 Alegria Imperial68 Bill Cooper70 Brendan Slater72 Freddy Ben-Arroyo74 Sabine Miller76 Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy & Hansha Teki78 Susan Diridoni

Graphics by Shane Drinkwater

Editors:

Aditya BahlMelissa AllenJohannes S. H. Bjerg

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