the archives of f/k/a . . .

  DeVar Dahl is one of the featured poets in New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices in English

-Language Haiku  (Edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts,  Red Moon Press 2003).  Even better

than discovering his haiku is being able to share them with you, thanks to his generosity.  

DeVar is a school teacher in Alberta, Canada and is President of Haiku Canada.

[Choosing the first pair to share was not easy.]

 

 

a steady breeze

the last child

leaves home

 

 

summer heat

the crickets wait

for me to pass

 

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  by dagosan: 

maintain tunnel speed –

heavy foot
suddenly light

                                           [dag, 07-01-04]  

 

 one-breath undit  

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  Teen girls should be ”jail bait” not “fair game” for men over 20.  [tell Eugene V; see World Mag article]
  
  
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  Query:  Is The Myth of Moral Justice, by Thane Rosembaum, worth reading?  Lithwick said yes.
  
  
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  Ambrogi Imbroglio:  If you don’t know what “sexist” means, don’t use the word!