hedgerow a journal of small poems

#98

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next month's calendar already too crowded

Zee Zahava lives in Ithaca, New York. She edits "brass bell: a haiku journal" — http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com

Ron C. Moss is a visual artist and poet from Tasmania. His haiku and related genres have won many international prizes and he has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. His award winning first haiku collection is: The Bone Carver, Snapshot Press. Ron is well known for his haiga paintings, illustration and book design. Email: ronmoss8@gmail.com Website: www.ronmoss.com

Pools of Amber

city lights colours deepen in the night touching their brakes red haloes in the mist after rain the sheen of stars on the highway all night diner . . . under street lamps dim pools of amber railmen reflect light from a passing train shopfront window the intermitted flicker of a dying fluoro

Rengay by Ron C. Moss & Simon Hanson

my boyhood's football pitch now a resting home half dog half dough he cannot save world economy

after the storm the village with the playground transcends time folding unfolding hands and napkins to wrap up shadows

sometimes Spiderman sometimes ninja a boy full of light by the silence of its stones the road shall be known

hopscotch: still alone evening bells then what without swallows?

Johannes S. H. Bjerg, an apprentice in everything, lives in a village in Denmark. Links to e-book versions of his publications can be found at http://january-stones.blogspot.dk/p/ books.html

NO TRESPASSING but the persimmons just hanging there Hunter moon I lie in a pool of orange Our knees touching strangers on a train

Alexis Rotella (Arnold, Maryland, USA) served as Haiku Society of America President in 1984, her famous poem Purple appears in Creative Writing: An Intro to Poetry and Fiction St. Martin’s Press, Teaching with Heart (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2014).

fiddleheads the unravelling of secrets rain clouds letting go and moving on

Martha Magenta lives in England, UK. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have appeared in a number of journals and magazines. She collects her published work on a blog: https://marthamagenta.com/

Chase Gagnon is a poet, photographer, and digital artist from Detroit Michigan. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://chasegagnon.smugmug.com/

home without the children the cats and I look at each other and stare at nothing long voyage to the center of love your arms grow a fertile forest around an old volcano

Kat Lehmann (Connecticut, USA) is the author of MOON FULL OF MOONS. She does her best writing when the children are in bed. Visit her on twitter at @SongsOfKat

before sunrise coffee pours into darkness

Peter Jastermsky lives with his family in Southern California where he works as a licensed counselor. He appreciates haiku and senryu as poetic moments in time. Peter counts the work of Nick Virgilio as an ongoing source of inspiration.

Chase Gagnon is a poet, photographer, and digital artist from Detroit Michigan. He currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://chasegagnon.smugmug.com/

summer night scorpio's star hook tangled in fishnet tide turn the ins and outs of shells

Marietta McGregor is a Tasmanian botanist and journalist who has written haiku for two years. She belongs to the Australian Haiku Society.

still summer heat the scent drifts out of the barber shop

summer traffic…

a girl holds her tongue

in the breeze

sweltering night the melon vendor breastfeeding

Paul Chambers is a haiku author from Newport, South Wales. His work can be viewed at www.paulchambershaiku.com

lightning in the old walnut a squirrel

Lucia Fontana, just a poet in love with life and people, Italian but citizen of the world (www.chanokeburi.it)

November dusk the spiderweb without a catch autumn rose the energy of a smile

Meik Blöttenberger was born in Baltimore to German immigrant parents. He is currently living in Hanover, Pennsylvania and in a decade will be retiring to the high desert of Arizona. His other passions are photography and traveling.

Nika, retired educator, lives in Victoria, BC. Over the last year he has teamed up with long time friend and photographer Jim Webster of Kimberley, BC to create haiga.

to live in a land where puddles rise up to be men parallel universe hunters being hunted by deer and buffalo what Om might have meant to my dead father uncrossed legs I too know how to wait for Godot have you felt it that silence after the rain stops

Robert Epstein, a CA licensed psychotherapist, is a published haiku poet and anthologist. His most recent book is, Turkey Heaven: Animal Rights Haiku; and the last anthology he edited is, Beyond the Grave: Contemporary Afterlife Haiku.