Welcome to the June 2022 issue of brass bell: a haiku journal.
This month there is no particular theme. Each poem is just one line long (or even a single word!) . . . revealing meaning and depth in a deceptively simple form.
Contributing poets are from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States
pond’s ripple a koi’s breath
Adjei Agyei-Baah
the sweetness of well water
ai li
so many Alans clumped in the school lunch line
Alan Bern
our packages delivered next door daily with a smile
Alan Bern
fish tank the squared-off edge of leylandii
Alan Peat
family of mice the night train briefly ruffles the snow
Alan Summers
wind whisper the night shifts to owls
Alan Summers
the recluse brings in another stray
Alexis Rotella
smoke from the chimney scribbles across the sky
Angela Giordano
too many words my dry throat
Angela Giordano
on the sandcastle a lollipop
Angiola Inglese
a slight smile in the corner of her mouth the wall still stands
Ann Carter
among the clutter of the junk drawer dad’s old watch
Barbara Sabol
sensory overload i count rotations of a ceiling fan
Barbara Tate Sayre
in plain sight an artist paints the north wind
Barbara Tate Sayre
collateral damage a felled tree’s shadow
Barrie Levine
nightfall the last crossword clue
Blue Waters
ice the riverbanks finally meet
Brad Bennett
breaking my fall a haiku moment
Brad Bennett
power failure still flicking light switches
Bryan D. Cook
blackout the glow of grandma’s oil lamps
Bryan D. Cook
off the beaten path the best poems
Bryan Rickert
aging a rose falls apart on the counter top
C. Robin Janning
dozing until the tea cools ignoring the news
C. Robin Janning
steam train whistles midnight mourning
Carol Judkins
raven on my shoulder first tattoo
Carole MacRury
a little of you in me narcissus
Carole MacRury
again but with more feeling spring breeze
Caroline Skanne
forgetting to remember blue butterflies
Caroline Skanne
the resonance of the bell deep inside
Charles Trumbull
interstellar flight endless night
Chen Xiaoou
misty lake drifting between loon calls
Chen-ou Liu
silence between us the phone lines sagging with May snow
Chen-ou Liu
the waiter’s perfumed wipes extra tips
Christina Chin
calligraphy practice on the blank squares new calendar
Christina Chin
squirrel park more squirrels than trees
Christina Sng
honeysuckle pruning I dream again
Christine L. Villa
tuning up bagpipes in a closed room
Christine Wenk-Harrison
translating the parrot’s new rant unpronounceable
Christine Wenk-Harrison
writing in bursts the rain
Claire Vogel Camargo
meteor gone before i can say it
Debbie Strange
in every boulder crevice a different green
Deborah Burke Henderson
crow caw meditation broken
Deborah P Kolodji
no moon tonight i walk alone
Devoshruti Mandal
how to hold nothing
Donna Fleischer
filled to the brim with emptiness origami cup
Elena Malec
deep meditation a fly fell asleep on my forehead
Elena Malec
blackbird’s song unfolding an old map inside me
Florin C. Ciobica
ants forget wildflowers remember
Frank Muller
what of the dust storm butterfly
Geethanjali Rajan
stepping into the unknown a rainbow
Geethanjali Rajan
cutting an avocado the way we compromise
Geoff Pope
my mirror is up to its old tricks
Jack Goldman
mother’s grave the red roses she never liked
Jackie Chou
beyond my fence a fawn watching me watching red apples
Jill Lange
rosemary for remembrance and spaghetti sauce
Jim Mazza
daily yoga practice weeding the garden
Jim Mazza
heavy fog mountains disappear
Joan Leotta
windswept our words becoming tide
Joanna Ashwell
rainfall skimming along with the dragonfly
Joanna Ashwell
a strand of her hair curled on my pillow crescent moon
Joe Sebastian
dawn greets me with questions
Joel Savishinsky
footprints on the “no trespassing” sign
John J. Dunphy
ginkgo leaves my niece parting her doll’s hair
Joshua St. Claire
moose in the meadow the cow watches
Karla Linn Merrifield
labyrinth now I remember the night I was born
Kath Abela Wilson
I dream my dead mother says she loves my latest poem
Katya Sabaroff Taylor
within each morning glory its own dance
kris moon
drum beats the mountain echoes boomerang
Lakshmi Iyer
rain under my collar the things i forgot
Laurinda Lind
your birthday i miss you we no longer speak
Laurinda Lind
all the glass not found on the beach cataracts
Lorraine A Padden
noon shadow only my feet and the cat
Lucia Cardillo
sinking into piped music delayed flight
Madhuri Pillai
frost the weight i didn’t know i was carrying
Marcie Wessels
invitation to write one-line haiku bag of potato chips
Margaret Fisher Squires
a smidge of this a dash of that used cookbook
Margaret Walker
little by little mayflies zigzagzigging
Marianne Paul
winter soup the swoop and dip of spoons
Marietta McGregor
river’s edge all ducklings in a row
Marilyn Ashbaugh
praying mantis looking the other way
Marilyn Ashbaugh
lucid dreaming wild-eyed pansies glancing back and forth
Mary Kendall
tangy lemon tart the child I was
Maya Daneva
a car alarm my raspy breath flowers for your grave
Michael Flanagan
love all his tennis whites as immaculate as ever
Michael Gallagher
done meditating the Buddha statue winks
Michael G. Smith
beachcombing every shell inhabited
Mimi Foyle
tulips my heart opens first
Mirela Brailean
love letters the different smell of each lie
Mirela Brailean
a pile of stones black teacups mended with gold epoxy
Miriam Sagan
a peacock’s relentless cry your long absence
Neena Singh
hummingbird in the mist seen unseen seen
Neena Singh
mountaintop almost there almost there
Pat Davis
feathers fly fresh seed in the feeder
Paul Beech
another rejection a soap bubble pops
Paul Callus
his touch my throat tightens
Pris Campbell
orange blossoms the taste of morning drizzle
Richard L. Matta
aloha plumeria the scent of her blouse
Richard L. Matta
closing in on 68 the field mouse I am
Robert Epstein
interpreter signs my pause
Roberta Beach Jacobson
s n a i l
Roberta Beach Jacobson
sweet memory my favorite doll belonged to my sister
Rosa Clement
a question posed between night-blooming jasmine
Seretta Martin
in the ocean starfish in starlight
Seretta Martin
happy hour drinks at the birdbath
Susan Burch
her tiny fingers trace the soft blue veins of grandma’s hand
Teresa Yatsko
clear morning slipping on my rose quartz bracelet
Theresa A. Cancro
oh how easily i soak up the folds of a primrose
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
intimacy like the way freesia exhales
Tiffany Shaw-Diaz
dried spearmint steeping tea new mint greens a patch nearby
Tina Wright
oh no the last short story so i read it real slow
Tina Wright
the news my need to just keep walking
Tom Clausen
puddle portal where does it all go
Tom Clausen
spring cleaning a violet in mother’s old herbarium
Vibeke Laier
after funeral moon fills the empty mirror
Vibeke Laier
teacher’s funeral between loved ones the worst student
Wieslaw Karlinski
snow melt fills the creek skipping stones
Wilda Morris
somewhere in the catskill mountains a tree i once loved
Zee Zahava