tangerine antho
an ongoing anthology of short verse deriving from the haiku and tanka tradition
Copyright 2002, 2003 by Winfred Press

page four
[in the process of becoming]
15 Feburary 2003
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Quilt Block by Stephanie B. Purington





                                                        © 2003 by Stephanie B. Purington
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3 tan renga
by sheila windsor & ron moss
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broken sundial
the seed of something
drifts by

sex before breakfast
late for work again

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cloudless sky
this small white feather
in my palm

gypsy fortune teller
whispers my life for a coin . . .

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leaving lace
and silver, a snail
wends its way

the old dog nuzzles wet grass
stretching out the walk
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© 2003 by sheila windsor & ron moss 
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Quilt Block by Stephanie B. Purington


                                                                               © 2003 by Stephanie B. Purington
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A Country Road
Linda Jeannette Ward

                     The pungency of hot asphalt, mixed with the scent of approaching thunder—one of 
those blazing mid-summer days where light glows round the edges of dark bulbous clouds that 
bud in the distance and blossom suddenly overhead . . . a corn-colored haze wafts around our 
idling car, coats our windscreen with a fine layer of agricultural dust released from a grain truck 
whose mountainous load of husked corn has spilled in yellow streams across this back country 
road lined with what seem to be abandoned migrant  shacks: square structures of wood 
weathered to silver—one window, one room, one tattered screen door that opens . . .
                      market day ~
                      a man and a woman
                      wield dustpan and broom
© 2003 by Linda Jeannette Ward 
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Quilt Block with Tanka
Stephanie B. Purington & Carol Purington

 

                                                                         © 2003 by Stephanie B. Purington
The long flat tone
of a jet crossing from light to dark
twice a day
the cows' bells drop round notes
on their way to there and back again
                                                                          © 2003 by Carol Purington
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Two Icons
Sonia Cristina Coman

 

© 2003 by Sonia Cristina Coman

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New England Palms
Larry Kimmel


Somewhere between weed and tree, the sumacs that jungle 
my unkempt property.  I like them.  My neighbors don't.  
I call them New England palms.

cliffside cottage
blue hills in the distance
here I could be
a Ryokan
or a Han Shan

                                                                                                                         © 2003 by Larry Kimmel                                                       
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Pen-and-Ink
Merrill Ann Gonzales

© 2003 by Merrill Ann Gonzales 

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Dog Days
sequence by Richard Stevenson



robust lil' fella
fires off a volley of barks
like a Howitzer -
skinny, low-to-the-ground cannon:
mini dachshund!


another dog day -
honeybee stumbles over
the globe thistle head


after the bee sting
miniature dachshund keeps
his butt to the wall


It's a tree, isn't it?
Christmas, schmissmus, mister -
a dog's gotta pee!

                                                                                      © 2003 by Richard Stevenson
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The Lake in All Four Seasons
a haiku sequence + one
Kathleen Leahy


At Lake Chargogagoggmanchaugagogg-
chaubunugungamaug:
snow

At Lake Chargogagoggmanchaugagogg-
chaubunugungamaug:
rain

At Lake Chargogagoggmanchaugagogg-
chaubunugungamaug:
dust

At Lake Chargogagoggmanchaugagogg-
chaubunugungamaug:
mist

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on his t-shirt
a culinary history
of the past three days
       

                                                                                     © 2003 by Kathleen Leahy
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Tick or Treat
Ken Altman




 
© 2003 by Ken Altman
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tangerine
of segments
forms & poems
small and golden
separate and yet
so much a part of each other
[comment from ai li: copyright ai li 2002]
 
tangerine
ever     
            
in the process of becoming . . .
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