[Haiku]

Driving Through Town

Old suburban trees
one-and-a-quarter-seconds--
adorned like heroes

8 pm, at fourteen below zero

A man just walked by
without wearing any pants.
Freckled legs; blue shorts.

[Donna Kirk]

your face above me.
after mere minutes of love
time is your heartbeat.

[Natalie Jane Frost]

tall, slender, watchful.
a smooth wizard on the grass.
he walks in rhymed beats.

[Natalie Jane Frost]

dawn moans, slaps the clock.
spring smiles, continues its games
of early mornings.

[Natalie Jane Frost]

The Performance

Face paint decorates
these circus cheeks, eyelids, lips,
and clumpy lashes.

[Sarah Dopp]

11

girls are quite shallow
but kiddie pools are also
and they're cool sometimes

[Steve Gintz]

14

it is kind of cute
yet kind of irritating
you hog the blankets

[Steve Gintz]

A strange native dance? 
Nay, my careless friend. Just that: 
my pants are on fire.

[M. Cornelis van der Weele IV]

I am running, dear, 
because you chase me, wielding 
that bastard's peg-leg.

[M. Cornelis van der Weele IV]

I am creative. 
Ms. Hillis says this, meaning: 
you all suck fat eggs.

[M. Cornelis van der Weele IV]

What is Heartburn?
 
Fire breathing elves
practicing below an un-
dulating big top

[Sam Sobel]