. My husband is glancing through some travel guides when he says: ‘Listen, one of the must-do activities in Honningsvåg is a King Crab Safar...

. They create an aesthetically-pleasing, harmonious pattern. Neatly stacked columns. These wooden palettes are tethered tightly to the flatb...

. where wall meets ceiling a gossamer web on spackled plaster . O.K., first off, she wasn’t “Little,” they just called her that to be funny,...

“Neil!” she yells from the center of the playground, “Neil!” It’s late afternoon, almost dusk, the swing sets and slides are deserted, all t...

For a year before we found a house to rent near the army base, we stayed in a room in the enlisted men’s barracks. All our household goods w...

Butterflies and brioche, cinnamon raisin rolls and creamcheese Danish, hammentaschen and croissants, still in patient rows on pans behind th...

. travelling to work on the dew-washed morning by bus on the route I never take by car I recognise this house now comfortably nesting among ...

. oriental boxes of sesame seeds, wild rice, and mung beans behind the glass of wall-to-wall red lacquer cabinets . with Chinese red, minor ...

door open door closed no door wherever I am says Kabir an entry point but I can’t get a handle on it turning this way turning that until tur...

Dad had taken me to have my hair cut short. “He keeps trying to look like a Beatle,” he told the chuckling barber. Afterwards, in the car, I...

The citadel dominates the town, now as in years past, giving the appearance of protection, if not the reality. The town’s a stony place, cat...

. Occasionally, one will launch across an open space, and bury itself in a crack or crevice. Quicker than the eye can see. Almost. But I se...

He tries to kill the flies before most customers arrive. You can hear the thwack, thwack, thwack as he chases a slow-moving fat one that’s o...

The campus is thick with mothers and nannies laden with cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies and cinnamon rolls. Across the quad a woman sees me...

. MET Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new journal. The premiere issue of the biannual journal, Modern Haibun & Tanka P...

Stone Leeks: More Haiku Stories by Ken Jones. (Pilgrim Press, Troedrhiwsebon, Cwmrheidol, Aberystwyth, SY23 3 NB, Wales. 2009). 96 pp. IS...

a bare tree and then, again, the Great Plains opening before you as if set into place checked and double-checked with a master carpenter’s l...

I haven’t had a drink in five years, well, not more than a glass here and there, not since my brother died of a cocaine overdose, but I have...

I didn’t know anything; I thought if I cooked a hot meal every night, kept our two-room apartment clean and enlivened it with decorative tou...

From two fiddles and an accordian, the strains of Mallow Fling as the first thistle seeds drift out towards the folly on the hill. In search...

. Takeaway – a Collection of Haibun by Diana Webb (Hub Editions, Longholm, East Bank, Wingland, Sutton Bridge, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12...

I am on the ferry to Schiermonnikoog on this warm and bright Sunday morning. Despite the early hour two girls, students I gather, are cheeri...

When my uncle sailed on the Rangitata with the first echelon for Egypt, he left his farm in my parents' care. Their first task was to bu...

I meet by chance on the street someone who resembles one of my dead grandpas and who could be the twin brother of Carl Sandburg, who died ev...

. The Longest Time: Haibun by Richard Straw (privately printed: 107 Mont de Sion Drive, Cary, NC 27513, USA. 2009). 21 x 14 cm chapbook, ob...