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    Per Diem Archive: S. Pierides March 2012, Senses

    Haiku of the Senses

    Haiku and the multi-modality of the senses. Poems in which the imagery evoked in one, dominant sense, sets off a cascade of associative links to other senses, letting a rich, multi-dimensional experience emerge.

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    Author: Jim Kacian
    chopping wood
    someone does the same
           a moment later
    Author: Martin Shea
    walk's end-
      the cold of his hand    
        shook mine
    Author: Michael Dylan Welch
    wedding reception-
    the weight of her bottle
    on the lip of my cup
    Author: Randy Brooks
    sculpture garden . . .
    the marble bench
    cool through my jeans
    Author: Alexis K. Rotella
    Before the ether
    flash
    of a nurse's cross
    Author: Sandra Simpson
    slicing papaya-
    the swing
    of her black pearls
    Author: Santōka
    I'm waiting the cherries are ripening
    Author: Carol Raisfeld
    sudden windbreak-
    everyone pauses
    to stare at the dog
    Author: Carolyne Rohrig
    sudden breeze-
    the dog sniffs the hisses
    of a gopher snake
    Author: Tom Painting
    crickets
    the pulse in a hollow
    of her neck
    Author: Peggy Heinrich
    evening news
    the soothing weight
    of the quilt
    Author: Scott Mason
    plum blossoms falling...                  
         her fingers lift
                from the Braille
    Author: Stephen Addiss
    sniffing the air-
    sharp emptiness
        of the approaching storm
    Author: Rafał Zabratyński
    starry sky-  
    the aftertaste of iron
    on my bitten tongue
    Author: Anatoly Kudryavitsky
    aspen in the rain
    each leaf drips with
    the sound of autumn
    Author: Kirsten Cliff Elliot
             cold moon
    still the weight of her baby
            in my arms
    Author: Chris Gordon
    my cold foot steps on her bra still warm
    Author: Melissa Allen
    opening a window
    to hear the cicadas
    continuing
    Author: Don Wentworth
    Slime trail-
    glancing back at
    the glinting
    Author: Seren Fargo
    summer's end-
    I let the thimbleberry
    rest on my tongue
    Author: Martin Gottlieb Cohen
    lit fish stall
    open mouths darken
    in the night
    Author: 'Haiku Elvis' (Carlos Colón)
    taking my glasses
    the optician disappears
    into the wall paper
    Author: Roberta Beary
    hating him
    between bites
    of unripe plum
    Author: Johannes S. H. Bjerg
    white and purple-
    the scent of lilacs
    is a ladder too
    Author: Alan Summers
    lime quarter...
    an icecube collapses
    over jazz
    Author: Claire Everett
    fire coals
    the darker crackle
    of pond ice
    Author: Angie Werren
    a solitary bird calls to the space between lightning and thunder
    Author: Chen-ou Liu
    waking to
    the scent of jasmine rice . . .
    a dream?
    Author: Polona Oblak
    heat shimmers
    the flicker
    of a lizard\'s tongue
    Author: Alegria Imperial
    symmetry
    in the bare willows-
    the shape of longing
    Author: Lorin Ford
    rusted hinge
    the butterfly's wings
    close, open
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