Haiku Attempts 09 names
Global Haiku • Millikin University • Fall 2021
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keeping my distance couples massage car air freshener Bailey Banks (un)beautiful self worth destroyed acid “I’m not telling anyone that” respect Alison Durham |
she ignored the month six Diana Hernandez he manipulated I Emily Nicholas
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bitter winter morning they’re not people birthday party rotting shell of a human toxic waste creeping, crawling India Guerrero |
he returns to his house they say they're taken Nico Velazquez what else is there? learning my business Nathan Gallop scabs on my fingers Maya Gomez
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no words burn book Reece Brown only ever wanted saying what Priscilla Sabourin treating everything tearing open wounds lock the door so Shay Buchanan |
an angel’s wings two years later white mouse apathetic eyes we are what train whistle Trinity Pesko |
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leaves fall Shay Buchanan
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touch that lingers whispering the same things holding your hand Priscilla Sabourin |
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sundress sleepover morning sunshine Reece Brown children unearth Shay Buchanan |
nowhere as fun painting on a smile Priscilla Sabourin |
before ink drying 1992 Jeep rekindling the fire taking me shopping radiator heat Alison Durham |
asking for a printer new restaurant back home focusing on my career forgiving you like lone drive to idaho spectacular performance six feet under first sip of white wine first kiss after after party Christmas eve one night stand ambrosia still skin on skin learning the curves strawberry chapstick Bailey Banks |
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tap through puddles shattered glass secret ingredient it’s complicated. autumn sunset Daniel Clear |
island of stars I reach the summit names waiting out of body my baby girl first generation student I kiss my grandparents a change in her eyes Diana Hernandez |
large fall leaves
squirrel skitters on stones sing us a song, I only wake clothes hair shoes coat go gazing in those eyes immortalized by poets get your tickets the sexiest Emily Nicholas |
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plants gathered on the dresser self help book 4.5 billion years trail of slain lovers behind me spending the day moonlight illuminates the frost sheer stockings rolled down January wedding India Guerrero |
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laughing hyena turtle shell splatter paint candle light shark bleeds new moon whatwillifind in yourhemisphere don't> look> bird call dead men's laughs Mason Hoyt |
lavender eyes laying in the grass tuck us in hands bruised when I grow up I no longer fear I wonder Maya Gomez |
shiny cut the deck a cheaper drink the elephant in the room no meaning my List grows longer studying together train whistle I’m taking it back Nathan Gallop |
in your arms carved turkey Mom’s hand upcoming auction through the window the world slows to make me family I know well Nico Velazquez |
crack in the floor a crooked hand speaking freely open door sunset dry heater air fresh hair cut brick by brick shadowed by you Paul Cushman |
grab my hand in the dark am i beautiful? shifting eyes one fork showing off Priscilla Sabourin |
mistletoe hanging by the front door turkey on Thanksgiving the Vietnamese woman Reece Brown |
a heavy thud big gourd rabbit in the night Shay Buchanan |
the other side of the blinds constellations birthday darling soggy earth if only Trinity Pesko |
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