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).

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.

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.