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Better Than Starbucks September 2018
Vol III No VIII
Copyright © 2018 by Better Than Starbucks.
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.
Contributing authors retain copyright to their works.
First Printing: ISBN 978-0-359-05153-3
Managing Editor Vera Ignatowitsch
Publisher & Editor-In-Chief Anthony Watkins
Cover Image: Mulberry Tree
1889
by Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
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Better Than Starbucks September 2018
Featured Poem (Editor’s Choice)
Written in Despair
She crests the hill between their farm and town
and ponders their west fifty in the sun.
The new-tilled soil glistens a richer brown,
but half the morning work remains undone.
Abandoned at a furrow-end, the plow
is punctuation — a period? a dash?
a finish, or a pause? She shades her brow
to read the message in the ruts that slash
across the tillage, as if a writer struck
his morning’s labor in despair. The line
leads home where, in the yard, beside the truck,
the John Deere clicks as it cools. She knows the sign.
If only she could strike a lifetime spent.
No lease or purchase should be ironclad —
no earthly contract — as the sacrament
that keeps her throwing good years after bad.
Her pickup rattles across the cattleguard.
The house is silent, as if there’s no one home.
She steers the tractor back across the yard
to finish the story written in the loam.
Richard Wakefield’s first poetry collection, "East of Early Winters (University of Evansville Press), won the Richard Wilbur Award. His second collection,
A Vertical Mile" (Able Muse Press), was short-listed for the Poets Prize.
Featured Poem (Publisher’s Choice)
Jardín Los Viveros
—Valencia, España
It’s rare to even exist;
the quest for calm comes
second to the wind’s relief
tickling the silver hairs on the back
of a blue-collared neck who checks
his watch for the end of his 30 minute break,
while he feeds fuzzy-headed peaches
to fuzzy-haired children, who dance
in dead leaves under swaying Spanish moss.
Impossible to seek solitude
from a willow’s earthly locks as they cascade
down in forest-green waterfalls, her tendrils
tickling the grass until they wet themselves
with laughter, their morning dew erased by
the leaps of woolly squirrels
on their overgrown jungle gym.
Hard to convince the wind
your peace is more important than lifting
up the weathered leaves who aren’t strong
enough to hold on, because
a driver’s 10 and 2
is curling his mustache
and flicking his Marlboro, while
barreling into the carefully-placed canopies
sending her children to the ground.
And yes, I know it’s selfish to ask the quiet to stifle
the gray moss waltzing in the breeze—
the gust a perfect partner. She belongs here,
foreign or not, because she’s relentless,
her slick, skinny limbs encompassing
each leaf, giving shade to sunburnt branches
while pooling as pillows
for those who have no homes.
Brittney Rangel graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Creative Writing. She currently teaches and is finishing her Masters of Arts in English Education. Brittney lives in St. Petersburg.
Haiku Contest 2018
Thank you to John DeCesare of CraftekDesign for sponsoring this contest!
Many of the wonderful submissions were on the border of haiku and senryu, leaning more toward human affairs than nature. Here are the 10 finalists, including the 3 winners. We hope that you enjoy them.
First Place
corroded barbed wire
on Sinai border
rain exposes land mines
Hanoch Guy
Second Place
Fly on the window:
do you stare with wonder and
sense eternity?
Evan Guilford-Blake
Third Place
at the beach
I leave footprints
for my son to follow
Michael Kang’a
spilt milk
he demands to know
why she’s crying
John Hawkhead
a breeze through open
window not finding her song
stills the lace curtain
Dan A. Cardoza
yard sale
the toddler in the doorway
hugs her doll
Greg Schwartz
newly hatched tadpoles
circle water poppy
exploring life begins
Ray Spitzenberger
my cowboy saddles
up his tractor, rides the range
corralling hay
published in 2013 in Manifest West: Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones, published by Western Press Books
Sally Clark
in the library—
silent books
speak volumes
Pamelyn Casto
rub hands together
ready for my lunchtime meal
a fly on my plate
David Bankson
Author Bios
Hanoch Guy is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English. His poetry has won awards in Poetica Mad poets, Phila poets and Poetry super highway. He is the author of six poetry collections, among them a haiku collection, A Hawk in Midflight, published in 2017. His new book Spring Time in Moldova will be published by Kelsay Press.
Evan Guilford-Blake’s work includes two novels, two short story collections, and 39 plays. It has appeared frequently in journals and anthologies. He and his wife (and inspiration) Roxanna live in the Southeast. He reads and writes haiku constantly.
Michael Kang’a is a psychologist who keeps two pet pigeons (Mandy and Mindy) and a dog (Mikhail) — also a pet. If kitchen gardens count, he’s a prolific *sic* small-scale farmer.
John Hawkhead is a writer from southwest England. His haiku book Small Shadows is available from Alba publishing.
Dan A. Cardoza has a B.A. in Psychology and a Master of Science Degree in Counseling. His publishing credits include: Pierian Spring, Brandon University, Canada, Aleola, The Avocet, Ardent Poetry Journal, Pacific Poetry and the California Quarterly.
Greg Schwartz works in a cubicle. His poems have appeared in Frogpond, New York Quarterly, Blue Collar Review, and Modern Haiku. He was fortunate enough to have two of his haiku reprinted in annual Red Moon anthologies.
Raymond Spitzenberger is a freelance writer who has published poetry, haiku, fiction, non-fiction, and history in numerous publications. He holds a Doctor of Arts in English from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Houston.
Sally Clark is the author of Where's My Hug?, Ideals Children’s Books, a WorthyKids imprint, 2015, the Winner of a 2015 Silver Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Pamelyn Casto has articles on flash fiction in Writer’s Digest, Fiction Southeast, OPEN: Journal of Arts &