Due to personal issues this project and all others associated with Kind of a Hurricane Press are closed indefinitely.  All work that has already been published will remain live on the site.  All work that was accepted but has not been published is now released back to the author.  All print copies and issues will remain available through their current sales channels.

Haiku by Pat Geyer

storm spirit spits
rain in the face of the wind . . .
squall line angers



banished he leaves . . .
pushing from the breakwaters
he catches a storm

Pat Geyer lives in East Brunswick, NJ.  Her home is surrounded by the parks and lakes where she finds her inspiration in nature.  Published in several journals, she is an amateur photographer and poet.

Haiku by Mikayla Heiss

black sky
illuminated by street lights
no stars to be found


black dots
scatter the sheet
design determining a final grade


friendship
under pointy leaves
a tropical fruit of compassion

Mikayla Heiss can usually be found somewhere in the state of New York.  Currently, she is pursuing a degree in environmental science and english.

Haiku by Brendan McBreen

freedom
is a thorn to the wicked
fruit to the wise

Brendan McBreen is a poet and workshop facilitator with Striped Water Poets in Auburn Washington.  He is a humorist, a haiku writer, a student of Zen and Taoist philosophy and psychology, a collage artist, a sometimes cartoonist, a Gemini, and an event coordinator with the Auburn Days festival in August.  He is a former coordinator of the August Poetry Postcard Fest and in 2009 was awarded a residency at the Whiteley Center in Friday Harbor.  Brendan has featured at various local venues and is published in many journals including Raven Chronicles, Bellowing Ark, Crab Creek Review, bottle rockets, Leading Edge, Origami Condom, Circle Show, and in the anthology In Tahoma's Shadow, as well as in the UK journal, The Delinquent.

Haiku from Linda M. Crate

crow song
white as snowfall
dreams.


sunlight
bouquet of beauty
spring.

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvania native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville.  Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print.  Recently her two chapbooks, A Mermaid Crashing into Dawn (Fowlpox Press-June 2013) and Less Than a Man (The Camel Saloon-January 2014) were published.  Her fantasy novel, Blood & Magic, was published in March 2015.  The second novel of this series, Dragons & Magic, was published in October 2015.  Her poetry collection, Sing Your Own Song, is forthcoming through Barometric Pressures Series.

Haiku by Joyce Joslin Lorenson

milkweed morning
a monarch chooses
the right moment


summer drought
in a handful of soil
stardust


heat pouring
out of the sky
a few wilting birds


wayward wind
wandering tendrils
of the honeysuckle


spring wood
slender spikes of wild
allium inching up

Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home.  She has been published in several print and electronic journals.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

from the far away
ocean breeze thru our window
faint cries of sea gulls


both doors wide open
the warmth of a summer breeze
in and out again



ayaz daryl nielsen, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/125+ issues), homes for poems include Lilliput Review, SCIFAIKUEST, Shemom, Shamrock, Kind of a Hurricane Press and online at bear creek haiku.

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

Fault Line

Only coyote knows
where
time goes



Time & Tide

The periwinkle pulls her head in
at twice the speed
of sound

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry & had poems appear in Dead Snakes, The Fib Review, Poetry Pacific, The Mind[less] Muse, Ink, Sweat & Tears, & others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia.  Stefanie's latest poetry title, The Vanishing, is published by Walleah Press & available from Walleah Press, Amazon & Fishpond Books.

Haiku by B.C. Nance

A Garden Haiku Triptych

Beads of salty sweat
Weeds choke my forlorn garden
Sore hands grip dull hoe

Amid the tangles
A blossom reaches skyward
New life gives new hope

Guests feast heartily
The fruits of my labor praised
Oh, it was nothing

B.C. Nance is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife and daughters.  He works as a historical archaeologist, writing many an exciting archaeological report.  In his spare time, he writes fiction and poetry including two poems published in the anthology, Filtered Through Time, edited by S.R. Lee.

Haiku by Sanjeev Sethi

A shorthand
of brisk emotions.
Is this love?

The recently released, This Summer and That Summer, (Bloomsbury) is Sanjeev Sethi's third book of poems.  His work also includes well-received volumes, Nine Summers Later and Suddenly For Someone.  His poems have found a home in The London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Otoliths, Off the Coast, Hamilton Stone Review, The Mind[less] Muse, Solstice Literary Magazine, Literary Orphans, Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, Cafe Dissensus Everday, Section 8 Magazine, The Peregrine Muse, The Bitchin' Kitsch, Futures Trading, and elsewhere.  He lives in Mumbai, India.

Haiku by Ezifeh Chinua

Haiku for Evolving

Mother's vocal chord:
Metallic pillars
Right under my words

And growing up:
A long wake of winter skin
Beyond a cross-road

Hesitating:
You in a den of hungry lions
The door is ajar



Ezifeh Chinua is a poet and artist who lives in Nigeria.  He is currently experimenting with forms.

Haiku by Denny Marshall

seeking perfection
forgetting a broken clock
is right twice a day


camping on moon
under the dome, the best part
zero mosquitoes

Denny Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.  Some recently.  Mostly does artwork.  Denny does not have any books or books for sale.  See more at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by Faris Naimi

Mute Congregation

Trees pray with arms raised.
Lonely petrified sermons.
Mute congregation.

Faris Naimi is an undergraduate student at George Mason University.  He was born and raised in Vienna, VA, and he works as a dental assistant.  He spends his time as a student of Biology, a writer, and a nature enthusiast.

Haiku by Sana Tamreen Mohammed

Tall trees often brood
over direful loss of kin
White pages protest


Fallen brown leaves crunch
beneath puny paws of fur
Two squirrels home bound

Hues of orangish
blue dance in late afternoon sky
Spring's Elysium

Haiku omitted
Five seven five syllables
mutely disappear

Where no graves exist
A still garden lies extinct
Birds hover no more

Sana Tamreen Mohammed, M.A. B.Ed, resides in Kolkata, India.  She worked as a journalist in a renowned news channel and independent documentary making.  She won The First Monsoon Haiku Competition, Kolkata.  Presently, she woks as a teacher when not working on her manuscript.  She was featured in a radio show.  Her poems were published in various online literary magazines and translated into four different languages.

Haiku by A.J. Huffman

Diana's eye blinks
as she hunts alone
in night's unruffled expanse.



Moon rises
against midnight surf.  Skyline erupts
in mirrored brilliance.



An astronaut's dreams:
to float in airless orbit,
walk on powdered form.



Cycle complete.  Full moon
calls my inner nature.
I howl at the wind.

A.J. Huffman has published twelve full-length poetry collections, thirteen solo poetry chapbooks and one joint poetry chapbook through various small presses.  Her most recent releases, Degeneration (Pink Girl Ink), A Bizarre Burning of Bees (Transcendent Zero Press), and Familiar Illusions (Flutter Press) are now available from their respective publishers.  She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, a two-time Best of Net nominee, and has published over 2500 poems in various national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, The Bookends Review, Bone Orchard, Corvus Review, EgoPHobia, and Kritya.  She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.  www.kindofahurricanepress.com.

Haiku by Iain Macdonald

hot soup
in a red bowl,
rain on the window



prized First Edition,
but the bored puppy
doesn't care



scalding shower;
the scent of your skin
rising from mine



three days of rain
and the frogpond
is reborn



alien sighting--
keeper at work
among the hives

Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Iain Macdonald currently lives in Arcata, California.  He has earned his bread and beer in various ways, from flower picker to factory hand, merchant marine officer to high school teacher.  His first two chapbooks, Plotting the Course and Transit Report, were published by March Street Press, and a third, The Wrecker's Yard, was published in 2015 by Kattywompus Press.

Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

Shine

Look to that cued-up lemon rind
. . . We're all experts
At something



The Scarlet Tattoo

I am content in this day & age
Since owls now patrol
The avenue



Russet Monastery

I cam calling & gladly
Your door-knocker
Was in disarray . . .

Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with Dead Snakes, The Fib Review, Poetry Pacific, The Mind[less] Muse and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Irish/Italian/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia.  Stefanie's latest poetry title "the Vanishing" 2015 is published by Walleah Press and available from the publisher [Walleah Press], Amazon and Fishpond.

Haiku by Linda M. Crate

blazing
epiphany
burn your grief.



flower
silver moon spun dream
fading oblivion.



scarlet
moon flower dream
geese fly.



raven
obsidian
song of death



refusing
make my own destiny
blowing leaf.



Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvania native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville.  Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print.  Recently her two chapbooks, A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press--June 2013) and Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon--January 2014) were published.  Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic was published in March 2015.  Her novel Dragons & Magic was published in October 2015.

Haiku by John Tustin

Always roll sevens
--Leave my bills on the table--
On the second roll

John Tustin graduated from nowhere, edits nothing and has no awards.  His poetry is forthcoming in Oyez Review, Wordland, Newtown Literary Review and others.  fritzware.com/johntustinpoetry is a link to his poetry online.

Haiku by Glenn Munroe

three haiku on the subject of self-discipline

my cubicle walls
stand upright and firm today
do not play they say

a deadline looms large
the damn clock quickens its ticks
gearshift stuck in low

computer calls out
my screen needs your attention
Jack Daniels just laughs