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Frogpond 35.1 • 2012

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Revelations Unedited

Essay - Paul Miller

Haibun

Tan Renga

Renku

Book Review

From the Editors

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A Twelve-verse Junicho Renku

by

Melissa Allen (ma), Madison, Wisconsin
Aubrie Cox (ac), Muncie, Indiana

In the Hallows

1.

flickering porch light
I offer candy
to the ghost

ma

2.

a bottle of pumpkin ale
from the cellar

ac

3.

home sick
from school he reads a book
about buried treasure

ma

4.

popsicle stick pirate ship
beached in the laundry basket

ac

5.

the glint of the moon
off her sharpened
skate blades

ma

6.

solo dance down
the dark sidewalk

ac

7.

carvings in the pine
fill with sap
that will harden

ac

8.

my dog and his
romping through the sprouting lettuce

ma
9.

weeds creep
between cracks
in the concrete

ac
10.

we try speaking French
to the tourists at Versailles

ma
11.

an arguing couple
breaks bread
at a riverside cafe

ac
12.

at day’s end
a frog leaps from lily to lily

ma

 

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