an empty elevator
opens
closes
Jack
Cain
empty escalators
go up
and down
so
what?!
Alan Pizzarelli
♦
It can't be helped;
My old
robe
Is rotting away.
Taneda Santōka
it can't be helped
my old man
is rotting
away
Roberta Beary
♦
Parody of a Parody:
the gas station
man
points the way
with a gas
nozzle
Alan Pizzarelli
new translation
the farmer gestures
with a
rutabaga
Carlos Colón
♦
Azaleas in a bucket
and in their shade, a
woman
tearing up a dried codfish.
Matsuo Bashō
Hibiscus in a pot
and in its shade, a boy and
girl
playing doctor.
Alexis Rotella
♦
What a long spring day!
catching yawns from one
another
we go each our way
Natsume Sōseki
What a freezing day!
catching colds from one
another
we each go home to bed
Cor van den
Heuvel
♦
séance
a white
moth
Raymond
Roseliep
séance
a white
lie
Alan
Pizzarelli
♦
The old rooster
crows…
Out of the mist come the
rocks
And
the twisted pine
O. Mabson Southard
old Kong beats his chest
out of clouds zoom the
biplanes
and the sputtering guns
Michael
McClintock
♦
cedar shadows
her whisper guides me
to the
squirrel
Laryalee Fraser
sexy shadows
her whisper guides me
to her
bedroom
Gautam Nadkarni
♦
Sometimes the oddest thing,
like this
orange pip,
begs not to be thrown
away.
J.W. Hackett
Sometimes the oddest thing,
like this
bad poem,
begs not to be thrown
away.
Alan Pizzarelli
Credits:
Houdini at the Orpheum Poster 1918, Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division. Parody of Houdini Poster
Graphic by Donna Foulke.
"the gas station man" from City Beat, Islet Books,
copyright 1991 by Alan Pizzarelli; by permission of the author.
"it can't be helped" from Mountain Tasting Zen Haiku by
Taneda Santōka, translated and introduced by John Stevens
(Weatherhill 1980).
"an empty elevator" from Haiku Magazine, copyright © 1969
by Jack Cain.
"new translation" from Lynx X:2, as part of "A Lizard's
Footsteps" renga with Alexis K. Rotella, copyright © 1995 by Carlos
Colón; by permission of the author.
"Azaleas in a bucket", translation by Makoto Ueda, from The
Master Haiku Poet Matsuo Bashō, Kodansha Int. Limited, copyright
© 1970 by M. Ueda.
"Hibiscus in a pot" first appeared in the Senryu Series
no. XI, edited by Alan Pizzarelli, Haiku Canada Newsletter,
copyright © 1991 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the author.
"What a long spring day!", translation by K. Yasuda, from
Japanese Haiku, C.E. Tuttle, copyright © 1957 by K. Yasuda.
"What a freezing day!" first appeared in the Senryu Series
no. XI, edited by Alan Pizzarelli, Haiku Canada Newsletter,
copyright © 1991 by Cor van den Heuvel; by permission of the
author.
"séance" from Rabbit in the Moon, Alembic Press, copyright
© by Raymond Roseliep.
"The old rooster crows…" from Marsh-grasses, AHP,
Platteville, WI, copyright © 1967 by O. Southard.
"old Kong beats his chest" from THEATRICAL FUN WITH O.
SOUTHARD, copyright © 2008 by Michael McClintock; by permission
of the author.
"cedar shadows" from Simply Haiku (Haiku) winter 2007;
copyright © 2007 by Laryalee Fraser; by permission of the
author.
"Sometimes the oddest thing" from Haiku Poetry vol 1,
Japan Publications, Inc., Tokyo, copyright © by J.W. Hackett.
sunrise
in the quaint little
village
the cry of a
lunatic
Alan Pizzarelli
feeding the dog
my neighbor's kidney,
night
deepens . . . .
Michael McClintock
alone in a forest
the campfire dwindles –
a twig
snaps
Aurelio Rico Lopez III
In the dark woods
the glowing eyes of
Bigfoot
ends the weenie
roast
Alan Pizzarelli
horror movie
my sister screams
between her
fingers
Kala Ramesh
werewolf movie
at the commercial
letting the dog
out
w.f. owen
faint light from above
as I mount the stairs alone
–
fingers touch my face
Bob Brill
zombie in the graveyard
hello and a smile
from
the ex
Jennifer Gomoll Popolis
the Egyptian tomb guide
proudly immortalized
in
National Geographic
LeRoy Gorman
Halloween –
Count Dracula in the
Superstore
shrink wrapping steaks.
Alexis
Rotella
meeting the vampire
in the supermarket,
touching
the tomato she touched
Michael
McClintock
serving my dinner
at Jekyll & Hyde
restaurant
the waitress with a wart
Mykel Board
Company coming
Uri Geller unbends
the
spoons
Carlos Colón
masquerade ball ~
behind a monster's mask
a
bigger monster
Gautam Nadkarni
Credits:
"sunrise in the quaint little village" from Senryu Magazine -
out to lunch, River Willow Publications, copyright 2001 by Alan
Pizzarelli; by permission of the author.
"Feeding the dog" from Poems of Mayhem and Horror,
copyright © 2008 by Michael McClintock.
"in the dark woods" from Long Shot Vol. 25, copyright ©
2002 by Alan Pizzarelli; by permission of the author.
"werewolf movie" from Frogpond, copyright © 2001 by W.F.
Owen; by permission of the author.
"the Egyptian tomb guide" from nothing personal, proof
press, copyright © 2001 by LeRoy Gorman; by permission of the
author.
"Halloween" from OUCH: Senryu That Bite, Modern English
Tanka Press, copyright 2007 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the
author.
"serving my dinner" from Pink Bulldozer, Spring Street
Haiku Group, copyright © 1999 by Mykel Board; by permission of the
author.
"Company coming" from Sunday at Four VI:3 (1997) as part
of "First Date" renga with Alexis K. Rotella, copyright © 1997 by
Carlos Colon; by permission of the author.
the wife who neglected him
makes elaborate plans
for his funeral
Anita Virgil
day of the obit
inside his wallet
me at
eleven
Roberta Beary
funeral home
here too
she straightens his
tie
Roberta Beary
cremation ground ~
a child smiling with
a
lollipop
Narayanan Raghunathan
after the funeral
the widow shops
an adult
bookstore
Francis Masat
At Uncle's grave,
only the cleaning
lady
sobs.
Alexis Rotella
my father's grave,
on vacations
and holiday
weekends
John Stevenson
boyhood friends –
side by side in trenches
still
together row by row
Carol Raisfeld
funeral procession
the last car
picks up a
hitchhiker
Ed Markowski
In the guest room
where my mother slept
I look
for comfort.
Alexis Rotella
a little matter in the
end what I urn *
LeRoy Gorman
Credits:
Photograph of Edgar Allan Poe's gravesite in Baltimore, MD,
copyright © 2007 by Alan Pizzarelli.
"day of the obit" from Moonset 4:1, copyright © 2008 by
Roberta Beary; by permission of the author.
"Funeral home" from The Unworn Necklace, Snapshot Press,
copyright © 2007 by Roberta Beary; by permission of the author.
"At Uncle's grave" OUCH: Senryu That Bite, Modern English
Tanka Press, copyright 2007 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the
author.
"my father's grave"from Upstate Dim Sum, copyright © 2006
by John Stevenson; by permission of the author.
"funeral procession" from raw nervz X:3, copyright © 2005
by Ed Markowski; by permission of the author.
"In the guest room" from On a White Bud, Merging Media,
copyright 1983 by Alexis Rotella; by permission of the author.
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