Five Haiku from Matthias Hoefler

Five haiku:*a wood burningstove. what's that wise cat doing on it?*her pink handoutstrechedclam shell*white noise raindrops yet my spiritagitated.*solitary red leaf falling A Glade commercial.*Piebald cathuddled in grass rime coming on*Matthias Hoefler is lord of...

A haibun from Danny Pelletier

Cleavage Stories about his drunk college buddy, who once scaled an impossible geological structure when the rest of the party was looking in the other direction, don’t linger on his tongue. “How’d you get up there? We only looked away for a minute.” “I don’t...

Nine Haiku from Bill Cooper

peeps and trillsa winding trailto the dogwood *after a rompan edge of goldin the horse’s eye *flying squirrelthe ready acceptanceof a thin branch*the farm horseout of harnessscent of straw *step stoollearning dad’s waysto maneuver the brush *beach...

Pris Campbell is voiceless

*Pris Campbell is a regular IS&T contributor who has published her haiga and free verse in numerous online and print journals. She has five collections of poetry out. The most recent is The Nature of Attraction , with Scott Owens (Main Street Rag Press). She has...