Joe Whitten
        Odenville, Alabama

pear trees in bloom

freeze warning tonight

broken promises

       

            Terri French
          Huntsville, Alabama

beach reading--
the sandcrab's eyes and mine
meet

writing outdoors--
a bug punctuates
my words

the wind
blowing on the child
blowing on the pinwheel

        Rose Marie Stutts
        Tuscaloosa, Alabama

blackberry winter
even the iris
seem to shiver

Ant by ant
the cup cake
disappears

seasons pass
when did Mom's face
appear in my mirror?



                                            Friends of the Southeast

first star--
a seashell held
to my baby's ear

hospital waiting room--
the drinking fountain
stops humming

 sleeping toddler--
a bit of the ocean
left in his plastic pail

    Stephen Addiss (including the haiga at top of page)
      Richmond, Virginia

sulking
in the corner of the guesthouse
the old stove

fifteen seconds of rain—
polka-dots
on the sidewalk

new to the city
but everywhere I look
her face



          Mike Finley (haiga available here)
            "robbing from Minneapolis to pay Saint Paul"

Why did the Buddha
sit under the Bo tree?
To get to the other side.