V
Valentine’s Day —
she reminds me
to fasten my seatbelt
Michael Dylan Welch, Haiku Society of America Newsletter 15.4 , 2000
removing
the bullet-proof vest:
the heat
Nick Virgilio (1928-89), Modern Haiku 14.3, 1983
W
that one kid
with the plastic whistle —
evening heat
Cherie Hunter Day, Modern Haiku 45.3, 2014
watermelons
the weight of our grunts
breaks an axle
Chad Lee Robinson, The Deep End of the Sky (Turtle Light Press, 2015)
X
I send a fax
protesting the bombing
pages come out hot
Ruth Yarrow, from The Haiku Apprentice by Abigail Friedman (Stone Bridge Press, 2006)
Listening …
After a while,
I take up my axe again
Rod Willmot, Haiku (1969)