HUMAN/KIND
  • HOME
  • About
    • Editors
  • SHOP
    • Books & Chaps >
      • HER FADING HENNA TATTOO
      • RUNNING AFTER SHADOWS
      • PRIVATE MAPS: A LONG POEM AND PHOTO ESSAY
      • Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft
      • RECYCLED VIRGIN
      • WHITE MASKS: A COLLECTION OF COVID-19-TIME HAIKU (A MINI-CHAP)
      • FIRE RAINBOW
      • BODY WEIGHT
    • Donate
  • Special Features
    • Book Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Resources
    • Archives >
      • 2019 >
        • Archives
        • Issue 1.9
  • HOME
  • About
    • Editors
  • SHOP
    • Books & Chaps >
      • HER FADING HENNA TATTOO
      • RUNNING AFTER SHADOWS
      • PRIVATE MAPS: A LONG POEM AND PHOTO ESSAY
      • Musing the Margins: Essays on Craft
      • RECYCLED VIRGIN
      • WHITE MASKS: A COLLECTION OF COVID-19-TIME HAIKU (A MINI-CHAP)
      • FIRE RAINBOW
      • BODY WEIGHT
    • Donate
  • Special Features
    • Book Reviews
    • Interviews
    • Resources
    • Archives >
      • 2019 >
        • Archives
        • Issue 1.9

A Haibun by Kat Lehmann

11/25/2020

1 Comment

 

More Than a Sphere


This uneven cube with slanted angles just won’t do for a table. There is no balance-point for your cup. There isn’t a word to speak me the way the word “ocean” disregards the fish. If you seek only my moonlight, you will miss the peculiar fullness of my shadows.


wild strands
of the stringed universe
these silvering braids

​
1 Comment

A Haiku by Peter Jastermsky

11/23/2020

0 Comments

 



prescribed burn
the dead carry on
​as wind



0 Comments

A Shahai by John Hawkhead

11/21/2020

2 Comments

 
Picture
2 Comments

A Photo by killtheapathy

11/20/2020

0 Comments

 

admiring the view
​

Picture
0 Comments

An Art Piece by Christine L. Villa

11/15/2020

0 Comments

 

Organelles

Picture
0 Comments

A Pair of Haiku by Gregory Longenecker

11/13/2020

0 Comments

 



burlwood the deformity of beauty

​

forest hike
the eyes of lost limbs
follow me



0 Comments

Art by Vicky Helms

11/12/2020

0 Comments

 

A New Dawn
​

Picture
0 Comments

A Socratic Verse by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

11/8/2020

0 Comments

 

how many sapphires
does the ocean contain
within its depths

along the surface
of my skin
you will know infinity

0 Comments

A Poem by Bruce Meyer

11/5/2020

0 Comments

 

Rising Water


Four years ago I traced this shore.
My footprints threaded a needle of reeds.
Thin grasses. Dry, flat rocks.
Waves of limestone lapped by wind
when afternoon sunlight made skillets of slabs.

Four years ago I could walk this shore.
Pick up fossils and coral reef shards.
Could turn over rocks between my fingers.
The world loves water
until there’s too much of it.

The water this year reached a record high,
refuting all my ideas of shore
between the cobbled wash
and leaning cedars
that spent their lives trying not to fall down.

These words are all that remain of the shore.
Next year, or perhaps a year after,
nothing will say a shoreline ran here,
except a line I want to imagine,
the thread of words submerged in a poem.

I wish history were told from end to beginning
to know that anything that sees its reflection
is fated to drown in astonishment or water
when the world changes to outpace itself,
though I’d be grateful to learn what an island knows.
​

0 Comments

    SCIENCES

    Archives

    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020

    Categories

    All
    Art
    Haibun
    Haiga/Shahai
    Haiku/Senryu
    Photography
    Poetry
    Rengay
    Socratic Verse
    Sudo-Ku

    RSS Feed

Picture

​​© COPYRIGHT  2018-2020.
​ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Published in Wilmington, DE, USA.


ISSN 2690-3903 (print)
ISSN 2641-628X (online)

​

Follow us:

​Facebook 
 Twitter 
Instagram​

​

Picture
Picture

HUMAN/KIND is a proud part of:
Picture