by — Two Columns Written by a Guy Doing Time in Facebook Jail on Bum Raps by John J. Dunphy

by — A Haiku That My Fellow Baby-Boomers Will Find Meaningful by John J. Dunphy (originally published in the March 2022 issue of stardust haiku) oldies concert waiting backstage the band’s chiropractor John J. Dunphy’s poetry collections include Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, pagan rites, Touching Each Tree, Stellar Possibilities and…

by — A Haiku I Dare Not Post on Facebook by John J. Dunphy Why? I’m currently serving a 30-day sentence in Facebook Jail for posting what it regarded as inappropriate material. I’m putting my incarceration to good use, though. I’ve even started my own prison gang: the Haiku Hellcats. This poem…

by — Five Haiku/Tanka About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by John J. Dunphy under bombardment wounded are evacuated from the hospital — John J. Dunphy VFW Post a couple of Nam vets discuss going to Ukraine — John J. Dunphy child learning her numbers counts aloud while her father loads rounds into …

by — Five One-Line Haiku by John J. Dunphy (Originally published in the March 2022 issue of Fireflies’ Light) quarter moon a panhandler wants my change slippery slope the icy wheelchair ramp my garden watered by hailstones tethered with cobwebs an antique rocking horse floating downstream the ice fisherman’s hole John J…

by — Three Haiku About Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by John J. Dunphy John J. Dunphy owns The Second Reading Book Shop in Alton, IL. His poetry collections include Touching Each Tree, Zen Koanhead, Stellar Possibilities, Old Soldiers Fading Away, pagan rites and Dark Nebulae.

by — Two Scifaiku Sestet and a Scifaiku Tanka by John J. Dunphy finally free from the curse of lycanthropy — a warm greeting from my new brothers and sisters upon arriving at the settlement on the dark side of the moon (published in Scifaikuest, May 2021) snowman snowman snowlizard walking down…