hedgerow #126 (the winter issue) is out! Thanks to contributors & readers alike. I look forward to reading your submissions for the spring issue (submissions accepted on a rolling basis).
The autumn issue can be purchased at the link below, or from Amazon.
hedgerow #126, the winter print issue, 2019
kindly,
Caroline Skanne
editor
welcome to #76 of hedgerow. this week features artwork by Brendan Slater. as always grateful to readers & contributors alike. please have a peek at our poetry / art book reviews page ( https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/poetry-art-book-reviews/ ) as it has been updated. further we have some exciting news to announce in the near future, stay tuned…
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with love & kindness,
caroline skanne
founding editor
meadowlark–
she asks if I’m
listening
.
express lane
a celebrity’s
post-baby bod
.
they must be fighting again
Dad’s playing
with the bristle blocks
Ian Willey is an American social scientist now living in Japan. He hopes to someday see senryu and haiku on the backs of cereal boxes.
this summer, I’ll clothe myself
in colors and fabrics
I want to wear, and not wait
to lose some undue weight
… I ask, how many summers remain?
Nancy Cross Dunham lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband, Michael. She writes poetry to try to figure out what she’s learning about herself, the world and the other people in it.
Ellipsis
When we met there was a lot of noise. A lot of questions and getting to know each other. Now we know each other well. Predicted movements followed by finished sentences. We hold each other after making love. Hold hands while driving but don’t feel the need to force conversation. We graciously, humbly, excitedly live in the . . .
Gabriel Patterson (@GabePatterson77) lives in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) with his family. He escapes the city’s neon lights by writing poetry.
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Brendan Slater is a father and a writer of small poems. He was born and lives in Stoke-On-Trent, England, but he spent four years living in The Netherlands in a small village called Slagharen. He co-edits the E-zine Moongarlic (www.moongarlic.org) and is one of the partners at Yet To Be Named Free Press (www.yettobenamedfreepress.org).
three women
singing siren songs
by the beachfire
rowdy with real ale
blood-red port and pale saké
.
yellowhammers
in the evergreen, singing
the old song –
a little bit of bread
and no cheese
.
the poet says
you are kind
and in my head
Robert Johnson
sings the blues
Joy McCall lives in Norwich, England, growing older but not much wiser. Most of her books are available on Amazon.
that summer sky
filled with our childhood dreams…
I sleep alone
under the water-stained ceiling
of a rooming house
.
this moonlit night
flirts with loneliness
no wine
I shoot the moon down
with an arrow of words
.
the shards
of our wedding plate
after the fight
I start to know
the sharper pieces of her
Chen-ou Liu is currently the editor and translator of NeverEnding Story, http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/, and the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation ( Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition)
welcome to #42 of hedgerow. this week features the watercolour series by august’s resident artist Debbie Strange, along with work by five different poets. thanks everyone for being here.
with love & kindness…
brook song
the forsythia’s
first yellow buds
.
at the muddy end
of a walking stick
wild oats
Anna Cates resides in Wilmington, Ohio with her two cats, Freddie and Christine, writes. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and several other advanced degrees related to English studies, and teaches English online for several universities. She is a regular contributor to short form poetry publications, and her first full length collection of haiku and other poems, “The Meaning of Life,” from Cyberwit.net, is now available on Amazon.
poem published in Acorn, Number 34, Spring 2015
Winnie the Pooh country
we cross paths with
a woolly bear
David J Kelly lives and works in Dublin, Ireland, where he finds scientific and artistic inspiration in the natural world.
poem published in Atlas Poetica, Number 20, February 2015
no more than four, the girl half-skips,
half-dances down the store aisle
her tiny feet spring up and down
in perfect time to the fairylike tune
she sings, the words grow softer,
soft, now a whisper as I pass by
Mary Kendall can often be found in her Chapel Hill, North Carolina garden, tending plants, feeding birds, watching dragonflies and playing with the dog. She meditates and writes there as well.
poem published in GUSTS, Number 21, Spring/Summer 2015
faded maps
all the adventures
we shared
.
steaming tea
the warmth
of friendship
Rachel Sutcliffe, from Yorkshire, UK, has suffered from a serious immune disorder for the past 14 years, throughout this time writing has been her therapy, it’s what keeps her from going insane!
Honourable Mention, Haiku Canada Betty Drevniok Award, 2015
mother shucks peas
with grandmother’s hands…
winter sunlight
.
light blows across the bay a cormorant
Joanna M. Weston. Married; has two cats, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. Her middle-reader, ‘Those Blue Shoes’, published by Clarity House Press; and poetry, ‘A Summer Father’, published by Frontenac House of Calgary. Her eBooks found at her blog: http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com/
poem published in A Hundred Gourds, Issue 4:2, March 2015
The Watercolour Series by Debbie Strange —
I am drawn to the serenity of watercolours. These original photographs were digitally manipulated in order to create painterly effects…
read more about the artist behind the art here —https://hedgerowpoems.wordpress.com/poet-artist-in-conversation/
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