Haiku by April Salzano

Snow has receded
from lawn.  Birds demand answers.
Crow speaks from his throat.


Mid-polar vortex,
accumulation measured
in feet, not inches


Silence Seems

the only option, weaves
one mile into the next.
Buzz of fly.  End of life.




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 available from Dancing Girl Press.  The author serves as co-editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press (www.kindofahurricanepress.com).

Haiku by Denny Marshall

mirror eyes look out
between folds of beating heart
in blue veins of dreams

Denny Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published.  Some recently.  Most does artwork.  He is plain.  See more of his works at www.dennymarshall.com

Haiku by ayaz daryl nielsen

last chance
my big bowl of excuses
empty

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 Adam Levon Brown

Electric Elegance

Crackling thunder booms
underneath the sanguine sky
Excitement fills me



Solar Significance

Sun high in the sky
Treading the luminescent
We are one with earth




Adam Levon Brown is a poet residing in Eugene, Oregon.  He started writing in winter of 2014 to express his thoughts and emotions as a way of finding catharsis.  He suffers from Schizoaffective disorder and identifies as queer.  He has two collections of poetry published with the independent publishing group Creative Talents Unleashed.  He has been featured in several places including Section 8 Magazine, Leaves of Ink, and The Bitchin' Kitsch.

Haiku by DJ Tyrer

Late-night drink, a few
Hop into car, go for drive
Wrap it round a tree


Body count rising
Summer sun shining on death
Revel in warfare


Childbirth:  Blood, Sweat, Tears
Present a child to the world
Hope and pain combine

DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, was placed second in the 2015 Data Dump Award for Genre Poetry, and has been widely published in anthologies and magazines in the UK, USA and elsewhere, including issues of Cyaegha, Carillion, Frostfire Worlds, Handshake, Illumen, The Pen, Scifaikuest, Tigershark, and Anthology 29, and online at Staxtes English Wednesday, Poetry Bulawayo, Poetry Pacific, Siren's Call and The Muse, as well as releasing several chapbooks, including the critically acclaimed Our Story.  http://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/

Haiku by Jonathan Torn

Wind divides nature
sorting what falls from heaven
An OCD canvass

Jonathan Thorn is a stay at home dad, working a few hours a week at a grocery store.  He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and five children.  He has always loved writing.  Poetry is an outlet that allows him to express the way he sees things, a medium to clarify his world to the world, and a way to encourage others.  He has a chapbook published by Crisis Chronicles, Cutting the Mobius.  He has also been published in anthologies by Writing Knights Press.  He was also one of the finalists at the Grand Tournament through the Writing Knights Press.  He has been published in Stroke Connections Magazine Fall 2015 edition.  He has been invited to be featured at several events.

Haiku by Niall McDevitt

from Jerusalem Haiku


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       x
     tians
                photoing walls
groups from Korea, Ireland, Peru
click-crusaders



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platform above all platforms

         esplanade
         higher than esplanades
                                                       clear


21
rainsweepers

                      Khan-al-Zeit

broom waterwaves to conduits



22
torn drapings

vegetable sellers squat on cardboard palettes

                                  bruised women



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                                           graves

thousands on the terraces

                          white-washed

                                          Kidron beds

Niall McDevitt is a London-based poet, author of two collections, b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010) and Porterloo(International Times, 2013), both of which included haiku sequences.  He is an urban explorer who does literary walks on Shakespeare, Blake, Rimbaud, Yeats and others.  He is currently writing a book about Jerusalem.  He blogs at poetopography.wordpress.com