cattails Premier Edition: January 2014

cattails
Premier Edition: January 2014

Angie Werren, USA Mike Rehling, USA John Byrne, Ireland Ernesto Santiago, Greece parting clouds~ the nodding approval of a blossomed bough Terri French, USA Marion Clarke, Northern Ireland Tatanja Debeljacki Gordan Cosić, Serbia Adelaide B. Shaw, USA Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Australia Elizabeth McFarland, Germany Angie Werren, USA Debbie Strange, Canada Sonam Choki, Bhutan Michael Kowalewski, UK John Byrne, Ireland Marisa Fazio, Australia Haiku: Ken Sawitri, Indonesia Painting: Jimat Achmadi, Indonesia Note: Hand drawing batik use a 'canthing tulis' to apply wax to cover ornamentation to keep it free from coloring matter during the dyeing process. For controlling the flowing of fluid hot wax, the 'canthing' often puffed before applying the wax on clothes.   winotosastro Stjepan Rozić & Djurdja Vukelić-Rozić, Croatia For an Editor's Choice haiga, I've chosen this one by Djurdja (our Ambassador for Croatia), and her husband Stephan. Most folks know that when it comes to haiku, I'm against "direct" personification, however in this particular case and placed with this particular photograph, it only enhances the moment. That, and the fact that I personally happen to know that there is a belief found anywhere in the Balkans, that everything has a "soul", which we are privileged to see in Stephan's great photo shot.—haiga editor an'ya, USA Irena Iris Szewczyk, Poland spring gust the dress of the bride bellies out Goran Radićević, Montenegro tree branches capturing the moon for a moment- Ramesh Anand, India Ranjana Pai, USA Elizabeth McFarland, Germany Cynthia Rowe, New Zealand Pris Campbell, USA Sonam Choki, Bhutan Michael Kowalewski, UK

Hammer & Anvil Books

Hammer & Anvil Books

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ANTHOLOGIES from Danse Macabre:

Contes Macabres   *   Erzählungen

Hauptfriedhof   *   Monsters of the Rue Macabre

Morgenblätter / Abendblätter   *   Rāwāhi ~ Poetry from Oceania

Stonewall ~ A Pink Anthology   *   Stonewall Redux

Unsere Winterreise   *   Weihnachtsmarkt   *   Weltkrieg

DRAMA:

The Water-Lily Pond by J.C. Frampton

THE HARRY KRISMAN SPORTS MYSTERIES by Tom Sheehan:

Murder at the Forum

Death of a Lottery Foe

Death by Punishment

MEMOIRS / TRAVEL:

Looking for Kerouac by Mercedes Webb-Pullman

NOVELS:

Miles by Adam Henry Carrière

La liebre de marzo ~ The March Hare by Marosa di Giorgio

            translated by Kathryn A. Kopple

Richard, Zombie King by Robert C.J. Graves

Quicksand by Arlene Greene

Death Road by Robert J. Gregg

Raptus by Svet di-Nahum

POETRY:

Spaced by Sheikha A.

Vespers by David Appelbaum

A Prayer for Late October by Benjamin Blake

Caughtand Mastered by Justin Burnside

Jugularity by Chris Crittenden

A House Made of Glass by Tatjana Debeljački

The Sun Chasers by Michelle Gaddes

Ghost Dreaming by Leanne Hanson

Dry Bones by John Holland

Under the Dog Star by John Holland

mango-red leaves by Fragano Ledgister

Hitchcock Hotel by Lyn Lifshin

Peep-O-Rama by Peter Marra 

Antiope by Peter O’Neill

A Feather of Fujiyama by Bozhidar Pangelov

Schisms by Vaughan Rapatahana

Carmine Carnival by Walter Ruhlmann

After the Danse by Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Ono by Mercedes Webb-Pullman

SHORT STORIES:

Nightmares by J. Eric Castro

The Olive Stain by Kristin Fouquet

Phantasizer by Kyle Hemmings

Fragmentsof a Journal Salvaged from a Charred House in Germany, 1816

            by David Massengill

Kate Moss & Other Heroines by Samantha Memi

Into the Blue on New Year's Eve by Valery V. Petrovskiy

-- 

Winter is icummen in, 

Lhude sing Goddamm. 

Raineth drop and staineth slop, 

And how the wind doth ramm! 

Sing: Goddamm.

          ~ Ancient Music, Ezra Pound

Sincèrement,

Adam Henry Carrière

Verleger / Herausgeber, DANSE MACABRE

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A Hundred Gourds 3:1 December 2013

waterfall ... 
a distant echo
of her anklets

Arvinder Kaur - India
 

crystal waterfall
we climb
through smoke and rainbows

Rebecca Drouilhet - USA
 

forest lake
my heartbeat faster
than her breaststroke

 Ernest Wit - Poland
 

without
a sound
no-see-ums

Jeff Hoagland- USA
 

getting a word
in edgewise
katydids

Jeff Hoagland - USA
 

daisy chain 
the broken links 
between us

 Tracy Davidson - UK
 

day lilies
folded for the night
the two year old

Adelaide B. Shaw - USA
 

heat wave
the old man shakes his cane
at no one

 Bob Lucky - Ethiopia
 

the catbird
flashes his red rump –
summer dawn

Ruth Holzer - USA
 

beneath sweet woodruff
telos of a rippling
thousand legger

 Patrick Sweeney - Japan
 

August heat
five people in the shade
of a traffic pole

Bruce England – USA

 

the wind is lifting
glass dust into
eyes

Tatjana Debeljački - Serbia