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Rebecca Morrison 19 HAIKU By Rebecca Morrison If I was a fish, I'd swim in you. If you were a forest, I'd drown in you. * If I was a pheasant with a head of brilliant blue and red, You would kill me with one shot. * My heart runs Like a fleeing deer When I see you. * As a poet, I steal everything around me. No one loses anything. * My poems are like blind women Searching for the waterfall. * A hundred crows Scavenge The freshly turned dirt. *

Under A Glass San Rafael, CA by Stephanie Lakos

I was a beautiful White stone Waiting to be turned. * The trees kept throwing Poems at me Until one hit me in the head. * When love grows, It's always in danger Of falling from the tree. * I said they were my clouds And no one argued with me. * Today, on my parents' wedding anniversary, The two oaks twine their branches Into a perfect blue sky. * I tried fighting With the wind. I would never win. *

Graveside Seating San Anselmo, CA by Stephanie Lakos

The bird said Something illogical. Nothing changed. * Only 5 English books In the farmhouse. I would like you to meet My good friend, Borges, Who sat with me by the fire All through February. * If someone is really listening to me, I don't need to say anything. * Every morning, I sift the ashes Trying to find something still alive. An opportunist, I always walk in the mid afternoon To catch the day at both its coming and leaving. * A magician, I conjure up Childhood out of mudpuddles. * Love, Like poems, Shouldn't be edited.

Rebecca Morrison Rebecca Morrison has published five chapbooks. These haiku are from her forthcoming book, 92 Berrichon Haiku. She is the editor of eskimopie.net which has published art, poetry and prose since 2002. She is one of the founding editors of Poetry Now, and she is the host of Literary Lectures at the Sacramento Poetry Center.

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