Winning haiku from the Jack Stamm Contest, 2004

clear water
a magpie's song drops
into the pond

Lorin Ford

the cockatoo sidles
towards me     small
in its dark eye

Jeffrey Harpeng

village debris
photos of the dead
float face up

Jan O'Loughlin

by the creek
wrens echo the rippling
over stones

Betsy White

bitter cold
out-of-work husband
burning things

Jan O'Loughlin

autumn rain
his name on the stone
darkens

Joyce Austin Gilbert

bush cemetery
a child's grave
beneath an evergreen

Michael de Valle