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issue 9.1
Fall/Winter 2009-2010
tinywords issue 9.1
Fall/Winter 2009-2010
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as asking people on the list to send in
their own. My early efforts at writing
haiku were, like those of most educated
in American schools, exactly seventeen
syllables. Easy enough, or so it seemed
at first: But soon I found I couldn’t write
or get enough haiku I liked to keep the
daily pace going.
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hum of the laptop
watching a lost world flicker to life
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labor over PHP and MySQL code and
the occasional pointed comment from
Bill, tinywords evolved a clean, simple,
minimalist design that kept the focus on
the very brief poems that were its heart,
and enabled each one to shine forward
on its own terms, one per page.
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had died, I didn’t get the message until
months later. And I didn’t have the heart
to reply when I did.
d. f. tweney
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alone in the library
I open
to autumn
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Roosevelt Island
the ruins of the hospital
touched by graffiti
Barry Goodmann
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Yet Our Life Is Sweet
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california sunrise
traffic in the canyon
begins to stall
Mike Farley
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in one breath the whole autumn
Valeria Simonova-Cecon
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a thousand dreams
yet, this one —
ashes in the breeze
Jeffrey Winke
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strip mall
a wild turkey pecks
at a hubcap
Barry Goodmann
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fall migration
the growing flock
of binoculars
Deborah P Kolodji
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first stars . . .
the timer turns on
the X-mas lights
Bill Waters
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autumn wind —
looking up for a fly ball
lost in falling leaves
Kathe L. Palka
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doesn’t matter
where I’m going —
autumn wind
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scattered leaves —
two guitar picks
on the blues man’s headstone
Charles Rossiter
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watching dad struggle
to remember our names
december sky
C. William Hinderliter
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a leaf’s skeleton
tossed by the wind —
those moments
when laughter filled
the garden
Laryalee Fraser
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autumn sunlight
the old dog unearths
her favorite toy
Melissa Spurr
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christmas lights . . .
the ambulance flashing
in all the windows
David Serjeant
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through autumn leaves a teal-trailed
wake of light
John Barlow
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toll booth lit for Christmas —
from my hand to hers
warm change
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old snow
the streetwalker
gives Santa a hug
Barry Goodmann
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autumn cascade —
in and out of the foam
a plastic bottle
Valeria Simonova-Cecon
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bow, if you will
marigold’s blossoms
dried brown
Jeffrey Winke
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late autumn walk
the many paths
I could have taken
Melissa Spurr
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in the air
rain in the rain
air
David Stark
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quiet morning
the continuous beeping
of an auto alarm
Mike Farley
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dew frost ~
the horse shivers off
crystal light
Narayanan Raghunathan
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with a crooked branch
I knock the last leaf
off the tree
winter nightfall
Barry Goodmann
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Evening prayer — a flickering candle,
rainfall.
Jon Summers
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no more bread —
I’m a shovel in the hand
of winter
Dana-Maria Onica
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early light
my dream drifts out
the open window
Jeffrey Winke
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silent snow
the coldness
between us
Claudette Russell
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surprise
party
i
hang
my
toupee
on
the
hat
rack
Ed Markowski
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I’ll put it back in the earth, as soft as
dust :: a word too much
Grant Hackett
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garden Buddha
knee deep in dead leaves
once again
plans for the year
have gone astray
Joanne Morcom
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whirling snow
divorce papers fall
from a red folder
Roberta Beary
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everything
for nothing:
job offer
Jeffrey Winke
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thunder
interrupting
thunder
David Stark
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footprints
the hollow boom of breakers
in the fog
Mike Farley
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He is young.
He could be younger.
His hands shake.
Even propped on the bar.
His nights:
he stands so ready:
his face: a mark:
the close of claws.
And passed:
after a pause.
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outside the bar
men like broken houses
Matt Hetherington
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in smoky twilight
i remember how light
his casket was
yet i can’t pick up his toys
still scattered in the yard
John Stone
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low evening fog —
I walk
no dog
Gosia Zamorska
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Midwinter snowstorm
highway at a standstill
I mistake the vagrant
for my long-dead father
his smile so vacant
Scot Siegel
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winter stars without you to name them
Roberta Beary
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Where are your friends?
You lean over,
the little boy, crumpled.
— Those were my friends.
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park bench
the blind man’s glasses
reflect the sunlight
Artur Lewandowski
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And don’t snow geese and immortality
take their shadows from the sea
Grant Hackett
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between
the falling snow
raven
peter h. pache
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the light in the back
of the flower shop
winter moon
Garry Eaton
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winter dusk
when dad
would phone
Roberta Beary
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burnt toast
no matter what I do
the rain seeps in
Cindy Tebo
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snow all night
the silence
thickens
Ann K. Schwader
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washing up
she looks at the backyard pine
its old nest
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winter mist
the scarecrow’s heart
a nesting sparrow
André Surridge
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the first brush-stroke
black
the sound of thunder
Sandra Simpson
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desert morning
a coyote licks ice
on the tumbleweed
Barbara A Taylor
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Rain overnight —
the mist on Mynyddislwyn
melts almost as quickly
as it takes me
to write about it.
Jon Summers
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a spot of light
from the hand mirror
travels up and down her arm
shadow patterns
her neck
Harold Bowes
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elevator silence
our shadows
cross on the floor
David Stark
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deep snow —
I put my feet
in your footsteps
Gosia Zamorska
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so like bones
the bone-white branches
of the birch tree
Bill Waters
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casino lights
your bad luck ringing
all their bells
Joanne Merriam
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cold morning
touching my breasts
remembering
Genie Nakano
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traffic jam —
from everywhere the snow
heading nowhere
Helga Härle
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a stone
next to a frozen pond
I long to skip
to another time
another place
don miller
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Trees blossom into coral
polyps and wave. Tiny bright
squid in shades of pigeon-feet
pink litter concrete sidewalks.
Deb Scott
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3 a.m.
the dog fetches
yet another stick
Ray Rasmussen
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haiku history lecture
doodling
paper lanterns
Aubrie Cox
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Previous Publications
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tinywords 9.1: Fall/Winter 2009-
2010.
Edited by d. f. tweney.
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About the Contributors
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karasu / Ross Clark is the author of 2
chapbooks of haiku and 7 volumes of
poetry, and a founding editor publisher
of Australia’s only haiku journal, Paper
Wasp. He is currently creatively
unemployed, writing poems, haiku and
folksongs during a Brisbane summer.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/paper
wasp/
Natalie d’Arbeloff is an
artist/writer/book-
maker/cartoonist/comic philosopher or
philosophical comic living in London,
UK. Evidence of all this can be found on
her website:
http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com
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Originally from California, Mike Farley
writes from Red Lodge, Montana, where
he recently retired with his wife Shirlee
from their twenty years on a hay and
cattle ranch. His poetry is rich with the
images of the high plains, mountains,
weather, wildlife, livestock, ranch work
and outdoor recreation with which he is
daily surrounded. Although he has
contributed his work to many online
haiku lists, he has never been formally
published.
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of one line poems is called Falling Off
the Mountain.
http://fallingoffthemountain.blogspot.c
om/
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variety of online and print publications,
including Acorn; Ambrosia;
Chrysanthemum; Prune Juice; The
Heron’s Nest; The Mainichi Daily News;
and white lies: the 13th volume of the
Red Moon Anthology for English-
Language Haiku.
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http://mercado-de-
pulgas.blogspot.com/
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press, her scifaiku chapbook A Nameless
Place is available from Sam’s Dot
Publishing and her haiku book A Piece
of Eggshell, written in collaboration
with The Magpie Haiku Poets, can be
ordered from the author at her website
www.joannemorcom.com.
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Gerald Brady Memorial Senryu Contest.
http://kathepalka.com/
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available at
www.Foothillspublishing.com
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Scot Siegel writes from various roadside
shoulders around Oregon. His full bio
can be found at
www.pw.org/content/scot_siegel.
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two cats. He is a long-time reader of
tinywords and is thrilled by its return to
publication.
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Wisteria, 3lightsgallery, Haiku News,
Shamrock, tinywords, Simply Haiku,
Kokako, Moonset, Magnapoets,
Eucalypt, and elsewhere. Poetry with
audio is at http://batsword.tripod.com.
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Haiku Study Group, is creator and
organizer of Poets on Site, a Pasadena,
California-based multi-media poetry
performance group. You can hear her
and her band of poets read mostly short
poems here:
http://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/_di
gital_lounge/audio_tours.aspx
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