Welcome to the April 2016 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.
This month there is no particular theme but each poem is just one line long (sometimes only one word!) . . . revealing beauty and depth in a deceptively simple form.
Contributors are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, France, India, Ireland, Philippines, Poland, Romania, and the United States
folding café napkins between lunch and early dinner
- Alan Bern
desk top with snow globes, storm clouds locked inside
- Alan Catlin
not yet light the wall and its black cat
- Alan Summers
cloudy her evening eyes after washing off her makeup
- Ana Drobot
over under beyond green mountains spring mist
- Angelee Deodhar
sea waves returning to the empty snail shells
- Archana Kapoor Nagpal
you smile I pretend not to notice
- Barbara Cartwright
weeping cherry mother always loved you best
- Barbara Kaufmann
on the seventh day birds sing in the garden
- Barbara Tate
ancient well the bucket has no reflection
- Billy Antonio
horse whispering daughter apple blossoms in her smile
- Caroline Skanne
green ferns rustle big paws
- Chandler Scott-Smith
winter rain the scent of mourning
- Christine L. Villa
the common language we don't speak to each other
- Dave Read
( ( ( (frog) ) ) )
- David J. Kelly
a curl of eyelash on your pillow crescent moon
- Debbie Strange
david bowie the genie returns to his lamp
- Devin Harrison
so many bracelets so little time
- Gabrielle Vehar
this dagger in my heart last night's empty sugar
- Helen Buckingham
driving home the white breath of buffalo across the plains
- Jo Balistreri
all the greens of spring opening our eyes
- Joan McNerney
empty elevator her perfume tarries
- Joann Grisetti
homebound the excitement of mail
- Julie Bloss Kelsey
weeping willow . . . another widow's rain
- Karen O'Leary
worm and robin wrestle with complexity
- Karla Linn Merrifield
above the kitchen sink an older woman's reflection
- Kat Lehmann
even the night bird is sleeping low wind
- Kath Abela Wilson
always a garden betrayal of truth
- Katherine May
tire chatter on the long highway
- Lance Robertson
vast sky features single hawk
- Leah Grady Sayvetz
crocuses bending low so cold
- Linda Keeler
hot air all through the night his lies
- Lovette Carter
despite the budding trees my mind remains in winter
- Margaret Dennis
we waited until we met
- Margaret Jones
hangingfromathreadbareemotions
- Marianne Paul
chest deep in sunset the rising tide
- Mark E. Brager
first dragonfly touching the grass morning dew
- Marta Chocilowska
greatest love one hug at a time
- Marty Blue Waters
sudden fog I forget where I've been
-Mary Kendall
small creek rising flooded basement hurricane season
- Michael Schaff
dinosaur fossil quarry — my own aching bones
- Miriam Sagan
yesterday phone calls from both sisters lucky me
- Nancy Osborn
winter sun a bird plays with its shadow
- Nicole Pottier
a field of orange hawkweed gentle monarch breeze
- Pamela A. Babusci
the cane alone in the corner will we soon partner
- Pat Geyer
seed catalog she finds a name for her baby
- Phyllis Lee
fragments of poems emerging my dog's damp nose
- Pris Campbell
dusting old family photos winter sun
- Rachel Sutcliffe
strangers before small favor
- Rob Sullivan
found letters fed into the flaring hearth unread
- Ron Scully
spring stars just enough to match her age
- Rosa Clement
the color of his eyes a year of grief
- Sara Robbins
softly softly bluebells in the mist
- Simon Hanson
we are only spilling ink
- Sondra Byrnes
the place of stones instructions from the dripping moss
- Stacey Murphy
I collect them — folding bookcases and dust bunnies
- Sue Crowley
putting on mittens and muffler — searching for the first crocus
- Sue Norvell
paws on his shoulder ownership
- Sue Perlgut
snow drops — a child calls here are some more
- Susan Lesser
a mosquito in my ear the midnight train
- Theresa A. Cancro
still in denial fortune teller
- Tim Gardiner
the time it takes to shape shift . . .
- Tom Clausen
mother's room one lonely candle burning out
- Vibeke Laier
babies — ha ha ha
- Yvonne Fisher
quick before it's too late ripening avocado
- Zee Zahava
