A brief note is all
Breaking a year-long silence
Warming winter’s chill
A reminder of this void
Your absence is cold as ice
By DJ Tyrer
Originally published in A New Ulster
Haiku by David Mitchell
Late spring in Iran,
flock of seagulls, ships waiting
– couldn’t get away.
Haiku by Nicholas De Marino
ninjas and pirates
battle across brown paper
who rules third-grade math
Haiku by Partha Sarkar
An escape after
the heinous carnage… the road
seems to be chill cold.
Haiku by Marie Derley
not totally red
the very first strawberry
into two pieces
Haiku by Sarah Mahina Calvello
Feel the emptiness
Walking carefully around
Barren bones of leaves
Haiku by Linda M. Crate
stake through anyone
would probably kill their heart
let me start with you
Linda M. Crate has eighteen published chapbooks the latest being:
crescent moon (Fae Corps Publishing, July 2026)
Haiku by Mark Hudson
Woman on the train,
with a magnifying glass,
looking at cell phone.
Haiku by L. Bordetsky-Williams
The ocean peeks through
Her white slats of window blinds,
The sky bleached purple.
Author of Forget Russia
Haiku by Barrie Levine
Return to Sender
the letter to my bestie
in the children’s ward
Author of Cotton Moon
