The Central Valley Haiku Club (CVHC) members have been very active in publishing their work in the last few months.
Here are some examples:
Arrangements
It's February, 1945. My great uncle Paul has been in Belgium fighting the Germans. His younger brother Robert, my grandfather, has been back east going through officer's training.
Robert arrives in Los Angeles on leave. He enters his mother's house, looks around the usually austere, practical living room. Sees the flower arrangements. He grins quizzically and says, "Who died?"
hometown
orange groves and loam
paved over
Lane Parker
Simply Haiku
Autumn 2005
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/
Stripped
One of the screws holding the nameplate on the plaque my fiance made for me is stripped. Over and over she says she wants to replace it, but I tell her that’s what makes the gift perfect. At the end of the summer, she has to leave Hawaii for the mainland to resume college, while I finish my fourth year in the Marine Corps. Distance in geography and education levels caused our eventual breakup, but we kept up with each other’s lives through letters: my marriage, new house and jobs, her college degrees and fight against breast cancer.
At work I receive a letter from her younger brother saying the mastectomy and chemotherapy have not been enough to win her battle.
early spring
before she can tie it
the balloon escapes
w.f. owen
Modern Haiku
Volume 36, Number 1
Winter-Spring 2005
Selections from the CVHC book, "feel of the handrail," (Leaning Bamboo Press)
Copyright © 2005Central Valley Haiku Club
canal water
pouring onto itself . . .
my thoughts empty
Yvonne Cabalona
nursing home
the feel
of the handrail
Mark Hollingsworth
giant redwood
standing at the bottom
looking for the top
Claris Moore
shaking out
the picnic blanket
first stars
w.f. owen
summer day
wishing I were that bee
in the honeysuckle
Lane Parker
valley wind
pine needles litter
a swept deck
Leslie Rose
Easter
a ray of sun lights up
my son's photo
June Shook
