The theme for the May 2021 issue of brass bell haiku is “edible haiku.”
The editor runs the poems in alphabetical order by the first name of the poet.
So scroll down to “Glenn” to find this haiku
before the trip
finishing the berries
in expired yogurt
and one more.
I wrote a batch of haiku to the theme just before we went on our Belize trip, and these were the two editor Zee Zahava picked.
Humble Pie, the literary and art annual of the California College of the Arts, published my poem “The perfect shape to drop to the earth” in the Spring 2020 issue, vol. 17. Unfortunately, due to the great covid shutdown, the issue was not able to be printed at that time. I am happy to say, a contributor’s copy came in Thursday’s mail. (Thanks, Caroline!)
“The perfect shape to drop to the earth” was written in the home of Helen Luster. Helen and Paul Mariah co-facilitated a poetry group I joined a year after high school. Both Helen and Paul were much older than me. I guess Paul was about the age I am now (his 50s?); while Helen was a bit older (b. 1913).
The poem went through some changes since first scrawled it in a notebook, but it’s still describing a particular afternoon.
“Night Poems” appears on page 42, issue #2, Spring 2021 of Last Leaves.
A reader has pointed out to me that the pdf document counts its pages differently from the numbers written on the printed pages (or Last Leaves' contents page). If you are going by the count of your pdf reader, “Night Poems” appears on the 56th page.
