ISSUE 41 - JUNE 2024

SPECIAL EDITION
Backstories
Table of Poems
Prologue
Dedication
Samples
The Book

ISSUE 41 - APRIL 2024

Yoga With Samantha
Incremental Forgetting
Hard Days
My Painter
Cup of Gumbo with Sister Spice
Culture Yells at Me
Bonfire Ballads
Lessons in Dermatology
Thank You Note
Dominican Republic 2024
Golden Leaves

ISSUE 40 - MARCH 2024

HIGH COUP
Haiku Anthology

Twenty Haiku Entries from various family poets for the
Annual Haiku Contest

ISSUE 39 - FEBRUARY 2024

My Father was a Printer
Ode to My Yellow Legal Pad
Valentine
Wyoming Denial
Embracing Paradox
Plastic Sanctuary
Too Little Scalp
Breathing
The Wrestler
Irish Bakery

ISSUE 38 - JANUARY 2024

Gamification of Food
Bounded
Garage Adventure
Earth Tips for Alien Life
TV Fantasies
Roller Coaster Wisdom
Wedge Shaped Cubism
Nine Degrees
I am a Viking
Patience and Faith

ISSUE 037 - DECEMBER 2023

Tinsel Hell
Black Friday’s True Meaning
A Generous Christmas
Insatiable
Christmas House
Nursing Home Stranger
A Dime for Christmas
Grandma’s Lamp
Christmas Light
Fantasy Christmas Tree
Taking Down the Tree
Favorite Gifts
Jingle Bells
Holly Hobbie
When Time Stops
Always Christmas

ISSUE 036 - NOVEMBER 2023

The Tao of Greatness
Ode to Mashed Potatoes
Well-loved Bed
Far Beyond Vegas Odds
Psalm 36: 5-10
Comparative Sufffering
On the Precipice
Justice for Cranberries
Thanksgiving Prayer
Pie Test

ISSUE 035 - OCTOBER 2023

Hellish Home for Aged Birds
Orange Jumpsuit
Ickity Lickity Cookies
Scarecrow Day
Granny Screen Rant #346
Bug Lesson
Weight of Echoes
Fashioning a Neologism
Stoicism 101
Look Upward

ISSUE 034 - SEPTEMBER 2023

Hydrated
Falling
Boundless Grace
1929
Not a Reunion
Five Paintings
Toe Chess
Bad Poetry Day
In Little Ways
The Miracle Part

ISSUE 033 - AUGUST 2023

Heart Scan
Mourning Trees
Exit the Maze
Fresh Start
Stone of Love
Despair Scale
Welcome Guest
Cookie Rap
Regrets
Last Day

ISSUE 032 - JULY 2023

Freedom Guarantee
What Does Paradise Look Like
Eye Exam Math
Sherlock Holmes Week
The Final Calculus
Cafe Conversations
Homework
Making Nightmares
The Problem
Morning Has Broken

ISSUE 031 - JUNE 2023

My Trip to Paris is on Hold
What Time Is It?
Trigger Warning
Damn This Holiday
The Cadolle Brassiere
The Chess Game
Tiny Blue Flowers
Portrait of a Married Couple
The Legend of Blunder Butt
Mother’s Day

ISSUE 030 - MAY 2023

Earth Day
Reality Check
Poem in My Pocket
Planting Day
Saved by Bittrich
Blackout Poem
Golden Week Haiku Septet
Buying Some Paint
May Baskets
Miss Ladybug’s Magazine

ISSUE 029 - APRIL 2023

Busia’s Cake
Ridin’ Off To Houston
Silent Afternoons
Favorite Colors
Looking Good
Lessons From The Borg
Bedside Manner
Bill Belichick
The Cost of Watching
The Evil Easter Egg Hunt
Miss Ladybug’s Magazine

ISSUE 028 - MARCH 2023

Week One - Sunday
Week Two - Sunday
Week Three - Sunday
Week Four - Sunday
Week Five - Sunday
Searching for Happiness
Helpful Hints From Old People
The Virtues of Boredom
Trust the List
A Gift of Old Age

ISSUE 027 - FEBRUARY 2023

Wealthy
Paul
Blizzard
We All Touch It
Tuition
Making Gems Circa 1959
Hide & Seek
Identity Crisis
Do I Look Fuzzy to You?
Slumber Ritual

ISSUE 026 - JANUARY 2023

New Year’s Ritual
January Haiku
Tears: 2023
AI Art
Roots
Illusions of Safety
Winter: 2023
Why I Write
Ode to Joy
Elf Pus Pie

ISSUE 025 - DECEMBER 2022

Snow is Hope
Dyslexia Font
Ordinary Magic
Letting Go
My Fourteen
Tribal Danger
Christmas House
Breaking
Not So Good, Mary
Always Christmas

ISSUE 024 - NOVEMBER 2022

A Biography
This Room
Hope
The Hunt
Tin Mask Plate
Whiskers on Kittens
Qeseth
The Fairy Aerabella
Gates of Borealis
On Meeting Fintann

ISSUE 023 - OCTOBER 2022

Firing my Teacher
Posthumous Break-up
I Love Nano Tools
Mom-Dad
My Ghoul Rudy
Stop the Sneeze
Demon Pets
My Zombie Heartbreak
I am an Entrepreneur
Ark Stew
My Crystal Ball
The Smell of Love
Ugly Bugly Retires

ISSUE 022 - SEPTEMBER 2022

The Scar on My Ass
Just for Me
Deep Nights
Ferris Wheel
The Anecdote
Miss Carey
Morning Prayer
Soft Edges
Windmill Cookies
Parent’s Promise

ISSUE 021 - AUGUST 2022

What I Really Want to Say
Ten Seems Too Young
Clear Plastic Saves Planet
Our Own Brigadoon
Marriage Semantics
1968-Setting Our Course
So We Do Not
The Hippie Bed
The Center
Enchanted Cream Puffs

ISSUE 020 - JULY 2022

The Case of the Purloined Brownie
Vulnerable Us
Bellwether
Education
Our True Name
Laughing
Welcome
I Live in Awe
Just a Light Sprinkle
Dreams

ISSUE 019 - JUNE 2022

The Anti-Gardener
Unlikely Bedfellows
Granted Wish
Memorial Day
My Looking Glass
Anesthetized America
Sore Throat
Omicron Means Little “O”
Aftermath
Restoration

ISSUE 018 - SPECIAL EDITION

Triggered
American Mythology
Color Blind
Watching
Blood-Stained Math
Fatal Attraction
Shooting Spree
Gun Buying Tip
Gun Control Lobbyists
Aftermath

ISSUE 017 - MAY 2022

Almost Mother’s Day
Slowly but Shirley
Indulgence
Instinctive Mothering
Take Heart
Prayer for Deliverance
Ode to Mom

ISSUE 016 - APRIL 2022

Devastation
Gag Order
Sanctuary
Exhale
Atoms
Aging
People Like That
Courtney & Dee
A Friend Lost
The Feel of Her

ISSUE 015 • MARCH 2022

Childhood Psalms
Fierce Origins
Belief vs. Reason
Say It With Me
Numbers Were Your Babies
Bedtime Ritual #3
School: 1 Books: 0
Sacred Oaths
Operant Conditioning
Granny’s Old Timey Oatmeal Cookies

ISSUE 014 • FEBRUARY 2022

Minus 22 Degrees
Coat Rack vs. Closet
After the Fall
The Paradox of Pace
Become You
The Friday Barometer
Life is a Garden
Edible Love
Marriage Counseling $1.00
Granny’s Valentine Cookies

ISSUE 013 • JANUARY 2022

Champagne With Keith
On Days Like This
Career Advice
New Years Day
My Bombeck Ritual

ISSUE 012 • DECEMBER 2021

Strangers with Benefits
Christmas Lights
Jingle Bells
Insatiable
Their Favorite Gift
Taking Down the Tree
Holly Hobbie
A Generous Christmas
When Time Stops
Giving

ISSUE 011 • NOVEMBER 2021

All Saints Day
Squirrel Ways
Perpetual Harvest
Graham Crackers
Thank you, Burt
Digital Intimacy
Sewing
Broken Glass
Who Am I?
Giving Thanks

ISSUE 010 • OCTOBER 2021

Lilly’s First Flight
I Almost Married Dracula
An Incantation Mishap
I Hate Middle School
My Cure for Intermittent Bouts of Depression
Death is Crabby Today
Ickity Lickity’s Magic Pickles
Pig Dog
My Popsicle Spell
Flirting With Zombies
Granny’s New Hair-Do-Not
Old Tull
Broom Shopping

ISSUE 009 • SEPTEMBER 2021

Schlepping Groceries
I go to the Lake
Lake Lessons From My Father
One Man’s Trash
Wet Prayer
Painting With Water
Sometimes Life is a Rom-com
Water Whispers
Back to the Sea
Bad Poetry Day

ISSUE 008 • AUGUST 2021

Loving Sisters
My Best Gift to You
Some Memories Never Fade
An Artist’s Eye
Co-creators
Tongue Lashing
A Failure of Imagination
Secrets
Small Sandboxes
Rx From Mom
On Track
Little Girl’s Hats
The Inner Savage
Fishing

ISSUE 007 • JULY 2021

America
Wabi-Sabi
Self-esteem
Media Madness
Kid’s Questions
K417N Mutation
Inner Life
Art of Marriage
Mother’s Prayer
Gillie Cookies

ISSUE 006 • JUNE 2021

The Walk Not Taken
Abstract Expressionism
A.I. is Not Artificial
Omit Obit
The In-Between Parts
Old Hands
Did the Math
My Best Poem
Their Last Day
Snake Cookies

ISSUE 005 • MAY 2021

The “Before” Picture
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pandemic Sky Gazing
No Carb Diet
Memento Mori Alarm Clock
पानी Means Water in Hindi
Skipped Practices
The Pandemic with You
Toothpaste
Your Side of the Bed

ISSUE 004 • APRIL 2021

The Egg Hunt
Purified by Rain
Old Women Becoming Fast Friends
Seeking Sunlight
Metamorphosis
Daily Commute
The Squirrel
Key Performance Metrics
Bartender
Resurrection

ISSUE 003• MARCH 2021

Morning Ritual #4
Matins
Becoming Irish
A New Dream
Chronicle
Before School
The Secret
The Physics of Marriage
Why No is the Right Answer
Snowflake Cookies

ISSUE 002• FEBRUARY 2021

Death Toll
After School
Going Deaf
Dear Aunt Ellen
70: My Year of Emptying
Be My Valentine
Our Little Valentines
You & Me
Eat the Same Chickens
Humanity’s First Valentine’s Day

ISSUE 001• JANUARY 2021

Grandma’s Lamp
In the Night
Japanese Textile Art
Witness: Leg Adventure
Our Feral Flock of Turkeys
A Dime for Christmas
TV Remote Ritual
Sitting
Lessons From a Video Game
Thank You Note