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Frogpond 36.3 • 2012

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay on Getting Started

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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Shiki's Fingers

by


Hortensia Anderson, New York, New York (Deceased)
John Carley, London, England
Carole MacRury, Port Roberts, Washington
Carmen Sterba, University Place, Washington
Bette Wappner, Erlanger, Kentucky

shared dreams—
a woven hammock
sways in the breeze

Hortensia

tendrils of light
dance on their faces

Bette

darkness
reflects the mood
in the waiting room

Carmen

brick by brick
the wall disappears

Carole

full moon
stretched and beaten
in a hoop drum

Bette

Shiki’s fingers
grasp a falling leaf

John

all the ghosts
peel from the heart
of the old madrona

Carole

creaks and sighs
from newlyweds upstairs

Carmen

the moment
when the avalanche
begins to

John

a plate of fortune cookies
predicts “great joy”

Hortensia

my birdbath
overflows with rain
and blossoms

Carole

eighty-eight temples
under this hat

Bette

 

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