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Frogpond 41.1 • 2018

Museum of Haiku
Literature Award

Haiku & Senryu

Essay 1 - "Hail"

Johnny Baranski

Haibun

Haiga

Renku

Book Reviews

From the Editor

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Sheen

by Michele Root-Bernstein

My daughter tells me her name is too pink. Yet these were my considerations: That it begin with a warm round sound, like mine, like her grandmother’s. That it tramp the woods, search for salamanders, sing the wind secret songs. That it stare down trespassers and maybe toss a pebble or two in the pond.

Years later I learn she’s a synesthete, that the sound of me calling her to supper really does blow from my lips like bubble gum.

fresh rocks
in the garden
spring rain

 

 

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Trace

by Cherie Hunter Day

A dream startles me awake and then for hours the scent of that dream clings to my thoughts. Its urgency flares up even in sunlight.

letterpress
the bite of metal
into paper

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