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Knowing where the snow melts wild crocus--Helga Stania (Ettiswil, Switzerland)

The shimmering heat… dear soil in a wicker basket on someone’s back--Yosa Buson (Kyoto)

Ebb tidewatching my daughterfall in love--Wendy Toth-Notarnicola (Long Valley, New Jersey)

Lend me your eyes owl to see my uncharted side--Helga Stania (Ettiswil, Switzerland)

Watching war movies child of peacetime--Pippa Phillips (St. Louis, Missouri)

The scent of diesel seagulls squabbling over a dead bass--Corine Timmer (Faro, Portugal)* * *seagullsin a sea of wavesislands--Anne-Marie McHarg (London, England)

Wheat field and white sky finishing each other’s sentences

Lightning under my hand the old dog’s deep heave--Neena Singh (Chandigarh, India)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The next issues of the Asahi Haikuist Network appear Aug. 6 and 20. Readers are invited to send haiku about a canoe or a sailboat, on a postcard to David McMurray at the International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, Japan, or by e-mail to (mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp). * * * David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News....

A woodpecker’s knocking punctures the wind--Jacob Blumner (Flint, Michigan) * * * gust of windpe