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Frogpond 31.3 • 2008

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay

Haibun

Rengay

Book Review

From the Editors

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BONES OF OUR ANCESTORS

                                                    by Carolyn Hall, (California)
                                                      & Ebba Story (California)

                                           Holocaust Museum
                                           my family
                                           in every photo

                                           bones of our ancestors
                                           lost on the Trail of Tears

                                           desert sand
                                           cupped in the Buddha’s hand—
                                           Manzanar sunset

                                           echoing through
                                           an Appalachian coal mine
                                           a whistled jig

                                           so many stops along the way—
                                           Underground Railroad

                                           highbeam search light
                                           a migrant worker stumbles
                                           into the Rio Grande

 

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