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Frogpond 38.2 • 2015

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay 1 - Haiku Diction

Essay 2 - Haiku Ethics

Haibun

Haiku Sequence

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editors

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Four Corners

Twenty-Verse Nijuin

Karen Cesar, Tucson, AZ
Polona Oblak, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ron C. Moss, Tasmania, Australia
John Stevenson, Nassau, NY

our journey begins
where four corners meet . . .
autumn afternoon

Karen

the snip of scissors
harvesting grapes

Polona

a display
of moonlight
in Waterford crystal

John

the printer’s hands
smell of black ink

Ron

loaf after loaf of
wholemeal bread
slides into the oven

Polona

like the other girls
and yet, and yet

John

the groupie
signs her name
with a Jagger

Ron

a team of packhorses
heavily laden

Karen

stockpile
of snowballs for
an after school ambush

John

fairy penguin tracks
sparkle with the frost

Ron

life of Neanderthals
in a multimedia
presentation

Polona

great grossmutter’s accent
difficult to trace

Karen

enamoured
with my French teacher
I order escargots

Ron

cold beer and a ruffie
for their midnight swim

Karen

from time to time
the moon appears
between cloud peaks

Polona

the enduring mystery
of mathematics

John

how quiet
the church becomes
during the consecration

Karen

something stirs within
the thawing earth

Polona

everyone
beneath the blossoms
holding up their phones

John

lambs ripple away
from the farmer’s tractor

Ron

 

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