Thursday, April 16, 2015

Haiku by Kelley White


inchworm--
living or dying
suspended by a thread



Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire.  Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA.  Her most recent books are Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books).  She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.




Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Haiku by Mark Blaeuer


A Course in Epistemology at Cambridge

Let us now discuss
how an ant should go about
pinching Wittgenstein.

Ludwig is buried,
rendering the ant's approach
uber difficult.

Does said ant believe
it has a chance to finish
the job?  Not really.



Mark Blaeuer's poems and translations have appeared in nigh onto seventy journals.  His first collection, Fragment of a Nocturne (White Violet Press) was published in 2014.




Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Haiku by Shloka Shankar


cold day . . .
the way you no longer
look at me


dog days . . .
where does the couch end
and I begin?


carousel
i chase a dream
backwards



Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer residing in India.  She is a contributing poet in over two dozen international anthologies.  Some of her haiku & tanka have appeared in journals including Under the Basho, The Living Haiku Anthology, The Heron's Nest, A Hundred Gourds, bottle rockets, paper wasp, Acorn, Chrysanthemum, The Bamboo Hut, Hedgegrow, and numerous others.  She is also the editor of the literary and arts journal, Sonic Boom.