My three poems, Depletion of Ozone Layer, Global Warming, Protecting Water source are published in this issue. Thank you, Charles, Vivian, and Valeri for taking my poems. Byung A.
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Night Haiku
Night Haiku in the wee hours two owls hoot to each other wise winter night it happens at midnight a screech owl flies by my house shrills the climate change moon hides in the tree as rabbit skids on the ice spring won't be here soon ©Byung A. Fallgren
Winter Haiku
Winter Haiku no birds are flying but the drifting snow everywhere deep winter is here green juniper's branch sticks out through the snow on it what is going on the town under the snow so quiet, it is picturesque lone rabbit hops round under the deep snow nothing seems moving, even trees why the wind howls so clouds seem to tell us looking at the deep snow here put it to good use ©Byung A. Fallgren
Thought of Today
A Thought of Today: God does not do everything for you but gives you strength when you are weak. Byung A.
Hive
Hive It drums in my ear when try to sleep in the wee hours; failed dream. It crawls across the back of the neck, intense itch at night, test the will power not to scratch. succumb, scratch, savor the brief freedom. would be nice if the world pain can be relieved by the quick stroke. The PA prescribed a tube of skin cream: steroid and other ingridients, used for cancer! it didn't work, of course, for it is a devil. It cackles, spreading: red, itch pain. what made it wants to bother me so; what I did wrong? PA, even the doc couldn't figure out. blame the hair shampoo; allergic to it. exile Ms. shampoo; wouldn't do any good. The hair dryer! Vidal Sassoon says, Keep the drier six-inch away from the noggin. Dump the villain and wait, see the devil vanish. Have you ever had hive from using the hair dryer? I have. Hive is a skin rash that itch and lasts long. its cause is often difficult to tell. allergic reaction from food, exhaustion, and others are common. Once I had hive, not knowing its cause, Then I discovered that the hair dryer could cause hive, if ignored the instruction on using the product: "When use, keep the dryer six-inch away." If the manufacturer mentioned as to "Why" I would have followed the instruction! Byung A.
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Coyote Sees Himself in Water
Coyote Sees Himself in Water Tracy M, Atsitty Averts his gaze: nare & lore, a body; of water braded into itself: bone of herring, its blackness among the bone white rush plunge against his bare body, wind up (upstroke) cascades a woman's body. coyote grows tethers over keel bone, thrusting, as if to buoy gently--blown over himself, prone to leave the body he embraced. No, there is no beauty here! Estuary of thick mutter and honk, up close: water, herring, & wind blow bare, gnat embedded in matted feathers. Here-- Tracy M. Atsitty is the author of Rain Scald (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). She is a PhD student in the creative writing program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she lives.
Even the Leaves
Even the leaves While most of them ramble round the yard or blown away like aimless souls, some settle in the window well; visit the salamander and toad hidden in their holes wide open; the leaves hide the doors under their wings; the finders of weak and helpless. they welcome snow, meditate beneath it, all winter long, slowly fade till next spring. ©Byung A. Fallgren
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Senryu (on health)
Senryu (on health) some hereditary disease or condition as obesity can be controlled evasive will-power after a long thought ordered a bottle of weight-loss worthless to the food-lover TB positive doesn't mean sick-guaranteed only one-in-ten fall *Person with TB positive (tuberculosis) doesn't infect others, unless she or he is sick. Not everyone with TB positive ends up getting sick, a doctor says. Only one-in-ten does. Health professionals say when a person with TB positive's immune is low he or she can fall sick with TB. In my observation, low immune system doesn't always trigger the disease. Some people with TB positive never get sick, even when their immune system is low. They don't know exactly why. So, I believe only one-in-ten people with TB positive get sick. Again, no one knows the reason. They only guess some people's lung's wall is so strong that the bacteria cannot penetrate it. --Byung A.
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