Haiku by Michelle Villanueva

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mother's crinoline

scrapes while she paces these paths

too blistered to fly

 

prairies built on less

breathe as though sleek hummingbirds

when she wanders past

 

and the silhouette

I remember twice she called

beyond mere windows

 

with snow slick as skin

hedgerows our blank crucible

hush the violets

 

all along the trees

whisper their benediction

they call her starlight

 

 

Michelle Villanueva is a student finishing up an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  She is the author of one chapbook, Postcard: Lions (forthcoming 2015, Etched Press), and her poetry has been published in Foothill Poetry Journal, The Tower Review, The Camel Saloon, and other print and online publications.


 

Haiku by Ag Synclair

gray ghosts of winter
a bluster of blinding snow
flakes of poetry




From the safety of his boring suburban New Hampshire condo, Ag Synclair publishes The Montucky Review and edits poetry forThe Bookends Review. Widely published in the small presses, he manages to fly under the radar. Deftly.

Haiku by Nells Wasilewski

graveside service
summer sun beats down
everything dried up--even tears


uninhibited
broken song on a careless breeze
child plays the piano

Nells Wasilewski lives in a small southern town, seventy miles southeast of Nashville, TN. with her husband, Walter.  She retired from the mortgage industry in 2011 and began pursuing her lifelong dream of writing.  Her work has been greatly influenced by her faith, her own experiences and nature.  Her work has appeared in Haiku Journal, 50 Haikus, Three Line Poetry, Dual Coast Magazine, Barefoot Review, High Coupe, Ancient Paths, and Poetry Quarterly.  Two devotionals to be published in 2015 issue.  She is currently an administrator of the Facebook Group, Christian Poets and Writers.