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Each issue features an editors' pick
for best poem in the issue.
First Frost awards
prairie stars
the faraway flicker
of a drive-in movie
Peter Newton #9 Spring 2025
big box store
the bird I become
inside
prairie storm—
the colour of
day-old bruises
Sally Quon #8 Fall 2024
Ron C. Moss #6 Fall 2023
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indigo dusk
the town quietens
star by star
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Andre Le Mont Wilson #7 Spring 2024
a shade lighter
the scrubbed beam beneath the eaves
where the nest had been
#5 Spring 2023
missing from her effects
the hum of bees
in wisteria
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Michele Root-Bernstein
read ten haiku by Michele Root-Bernstein
how to make friends
asking the willow
at recess
Mariel Herbert #4 Spring 2022
redwoods the rain that never reaches us
Cherie Hunter Day #3 Fall 2021
her slow pulse
dawn arrives
with rain
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paul m #2 Fall 2022
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Angela Terry #1 Spring 2021
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The postscript
in a different hand . . .
early moonset
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