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SPORTS
AM radio dial —
lights up with the roar
of a ball game
Barry George
sports bar
the barmaid
knows the score
Bill Kenney
last second field goal...
for the fifth straight week
my bookie wins
Ed Markowski
after watching
the football game
he does some pushups
Bob Brill
sumo highlights
changing a diaper
in the tv's glare
Bob Lucky
basketball game —
off court, opposing fathers
take some shots
Bob Lucky
Another great win:
the coach tells us everything
we did wrong
Jesse McGowan
Blowing a kiss
to his boyfriend,
captain of the rugby team.
Alexis Rotella
on a date
the hockey player
finally scores
Alan Pizzarelli
Old boxer
telling a joke,
forgets the punch line.
Alexis Rotella
end of fifth round
the boxer goes
to the wrong corner
Jörgen Johansson
her first bowling ball
ended
on the neighboring lane
Jörgen Johansson
cold coffee...
explaining cricket
to the baseball fan
Matthew Paul
Spring tryouts
the short kid
shows up first
Efren Estevez
pop up
lost in the insect swarm —
infield fly rule
Mathew Spano
up from Pawtucket
his error in slow-mo
on the centerfield scoreboard
Ed Markowski
sports stadium:
she throws the keys perfectly
into his hands
Kala Ramesh
leaning for the sign
the pitcher rotates the ball
behind his back
Alan Pizzarelli
after confession
father shows us
how to throw a spitter
Ed Markowski
co-ed softball
the batter steals a glance
at the catcher's cleavage
Mathew Spano
beer league softball
a pitch down the middle brushes
the batter's belly
Ed Markowski
having an affair
with his buddy's wife
the DH
Brenda Gannam
shaken off a second time
the catcher flashes his
middle finger
Ed Markowski
Bottom of the ninth
in the dugout
a row of bent heads.
Arizona Zipper
tagged for the last out
our son cries on the steps
as I take off his cleats
David Kelly-Hedrick
tournament day
putting on his golf socks
with a hole in one
Carol Raisfeld
on seventeen he
hits the sand he hits the sand
he hits he hits hits….
Barry George
Credits:
"blowing a kiss" and "Old Boxer" from OUCH: Senryu That Bite, Modern English Tanka Press, copyright © 2007 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the author.
"Spring tryouts" from bottle rockets vol.8 no 1, copyright © 2006 by Efren Estevez; by permission of the author.
"leaning for the sign" from Baseball Haiku — American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball — edited by Cor van den Heuvel, W.W. Norton & Company, copyright © 2007 by Alan Pizzarelli; by permission of the author.
"having an affair" from Baseball Haiku — American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball — edited by Cor van den Heuvel, W.W. Norton & Company, copyright © 2007 by Brenda Gannam; by permission of the author.
"Bottom of the ninth" from Baseball Haiku — American and Japanese Haiku and Senryu on Baseball - edited by Cor van den Heuvel, W.W. Norton & Company, copyright © 2007 by Arizona Zipper; by permission of the author.
"on seventeen" from Modern Haiku 36:3, copyright © 2005 by Barry George; by permission of the author.
FAMILY AFFAIRS
family baseball game
the youngest one
swings at everything
John Stevenson
family Thanksgiving
aunt Sadie slips a dinner roll
into her purse
Carol Raisfeld
he hesitates
to say he is hungry
the stepson
Gautam Nadkarni
Grandpa's false teeth
are missing —
and so is my brother.
Alexis Rotella
inseparable
like most couples
until they tied the knot
Kala Ramesh
home from work
the lion tamer — tamed
by his wife
Gautam Nadkarni
eating the burnt meatloaf
he forces a smile
at his beautiful wife
Alan Pizzarelli
thumping of a fetus' heart —
the soon-to-be father
checks his own pulse
Jim Doss
Santo Domingo
the young pregnant woman
pushes twins
Mykel Board
discarded doll —
my kid wants it back
when taken by another
A. Thiagarajan
my wife gives orders . . .
our daughter whispers to me
"bad mood"
Tom Clausen
father-son talk —
it doesn't pay to argue
with mom
Bob Lucky
sister laughs, brother cries
when his ice cream cone
falls on the ground
brother laughs, sister cries
when he knocks her cone
out of her hand
Bob Brill
struggling with home work
parents fight
yet another day
A. Thiagarajan
without consent
my old sneakers
in the trash
Tom Clausen
in camouflage
he tells his wife
all about the hunting trip
Ed Markowski
the opticians wife —
her eyes speak
volumes
Carol Raisfeld
Father's Day
she tells me
I'm not the father
John Stevenson
husband at work ...
the mailman knocks
to see the newborn
Carol Raisfeld
divorced
she cleans the ring
around the tub
W.F. Owen
family picnic
the new wife's rump
bigger than mine
Roberta Beary
blowing out
one birthday candle:
the whole family
D. Claire Gallagher
Credits:
"family baseball game" from Geppo, copyright © 2007 by John Stevenson; by permission of the author.
"Grandpa's false teeth" from OUCH: Senryu That Bite, Modern English Tanka Press, copyright © 2007 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the author.
"eating the burnt meatloaf" from Senryu Magazine — Out to Lunch, River Willow Publications, copyright © 2001 by Alan Pizzarelli; by permission of the author.
"without consent" from Homework, copyright © 2000 by Tom Clausen: by permission of the author.
"in camouflage" from Modern Haiku, copyright © 2006 by Ed Markowski; by permission of the author.
"Father's Day" from Modern Haiku 30:3, copyright © 1999 by John Stevenson; by permission of the author.
"divorced" from Frogpond, copyright © 2002 by W.F. Owen; by permission of the author.
"family picnic" from The Unworn Necklace, Snapshot Press, copyright © 2007 by Roberta Beary; by permission of the author.
"blowing out" from Frogpond, copyright © 1998 by D. Claire Gallagher; by permission of the author.
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