Haiku by Stefanie Bennett

The lesser evil
never gets caught unless
the altar-wine sours


Time didn't learn to fly -
she chose a Harley
side-car instead


Stefanie Bennett has published several volumes of poetry and had poems appear with Dead Snakes, Poetry Pacific, Snow Monkey, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Boston Poetry Magazine, Mad Swirl, The Mind[less] Muse, and others.  Of mixed ancestry [Italian/Irish/Paugussett-Shawnee], she was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1945.

Haiku by Gloria Keeley

on a dark bayou
a fish jumps high through the moon
a frog is swimming



moon shines down on me
much like a pearl in the sky
strands around my neck

Gloria Keeley is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing.  She currently volunteers at the grammar school she attended, teaching poetry to the third graders.  Her work has appeared in Spook River Poetry Review, The MacGuffin, 300 Days of Sun, Stillwater, Straylight, and others.

Haiku from April Salzano

and then there were ten
five for you and five for them
don't choose too quickly


Weekend at Dad's house.
Deodorant, retainer,
left at home on sink.


Reverse Cowgirl

backwards and bent wrong
but you have the perfect view
forget who I am

April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania where she lives with her husband and two sons.  She is currently working on a memoir on raising a child with autism and several collections of poetry.  Her work has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in journals such as Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, The Camel Saloon, Centrifugal Eye, DeadSnakes, Visceral Uterus, Salome, Poetry Quarterly, Writing Tomorrow and Rattle.  Her first chapbook, The Girl of My Dreams, is forthcoming in spring, 2015 from Dancing Girl Press.  The author serves as co-editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press (www.kindofahurricanepress.com).

Haiku by Emily Jo Scalzo

warm enough for rain
the earthworms on the pavement
despite two feet of snow

Emily Jo Scalzo has an MFA in Fiction from California State University, Fresno.  She currently resides in Muncie, Indiana, and is an assistant professor at Ball State University.  Her work has been published in Mobius:  The Journal of Social Change, The Mindful Word, Ms. Fit Magazine, and The Blue Collar Review.  

Haiku by Theresa A. Cancro

sliver of moon
in lingering clouds--
lost flip-flop among the dunes


he kisses
my eyes closed--bits of baklava
beneath the coverlet


catching the fly-ball
I become my son's
new hero


sea glass--
the gull's eye
spots a morsel

Theresa A. Cancro of Wilmington Delaware writes poetry and short fiction.  Dozens of her poems have been published internationally, in print and online.  Many of her haiku have appeared, or are forthcoming, in such journals as A Hundred Gourds, A Handful of Stones, tinywords, Brass Bell, Cattails, Shamrock, Chrysanthemum, Presence, and The Icebox, among others.  In the January 2015 issue of Cattails, her haiku was featured as an Editor's Choice.

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

early evening
sofa covered with nephews
nieces and kittens


a long dream
waking beside
a purring cat


longing for a windstorm
   reeds in a small pond
      imagine new moves

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 poetry.

Haiku by Wayne F. Burke

ocean waves of
stuporous languor--
the maid sweeps the sun deck

Wayne F. Burke has previously appeared in Bottle Rockets, and his tanka has appeared in American Tanka.  His poetry collection, Words that Burn, is published by Bareback Press (2013).