tangerine antho
an ongoing anthology of short verse deriving from the haiku and tanka tradition
Copyright 2002 by Winfred Press

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Hedgerow
sheila windsor
 





i walked
over a mile
to find no-one at home
yet each way this honeysuckle
hedgerow
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text © 2002 by sheila windsor
art  © 2002 by sheila windsor
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eros                                      
a sequence 
Pamela A. Babusci 
© 2002 by Pamela A. Babusci  




your 
suffocating love 
between the sheets 
i can't get close                                      
enough 





wiping off my lipstick 
i taste your mouth... 
will you long for me tonight 
when you are as distant as 
the Milky Way? 





making                                      
a bamboo trellis 
for morning glories 
oh, indigo wind, who will 
climb my womanly vines 





with no lover tonight 
my kimono is loosened 
by the summer wind 
honeysuckle perfume 
caressing my breasts 
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Image, Legends & Haiku 
Angelee Deodhar

 

 






Blood

Pale hands, short of breath dizzy no longer possible to meditate jumbled thoughts
haiku haibun haiga Boston New York Japan past present future deadlines so little
time - emergency transfusion one bottle then another slowly each ruby drop reduces
the pallor.





palm to glass
touching flamboyant blossoms
through the ambulance window





Angelee Deodhar
art & text © 2002 by Angelee Deodhar
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Pen & Ink
Merrill Ann Gonzales






art © 2002 by Merrill Ann Gonzales
                                                              
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Winter Cottage
tanbun


Unworldly wind, and dark the midnight forest.  So cold the branches click like antlers.  
Beyond that, not much to know.


in the black of nothing -
               phantom bucks
                                battle



Larry Kimmel
© 2002 by Larry Kimmel
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botanical print
Pamela A. Babusci



 
art © 2002 by Pamela A. Babusci
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Two Cinquain
Kathy Lippard Cobb  
© 2002 by Kathy Lippard Cobb




Knowing It's Over


Shadows:
We sit, watching
the day come to an end—
each knowing that we've nothing left
to say.

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Winter. . .
old men huddle
on the dock — a pungent
odor of whiskey, fish, and lost
chances.
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