Boulevard Park

by Michael Dylan Welch, Elaine Miller Bond, Alan S. Bridges, John S Green, Victor Ortiz, and Carla Shafer

First published in Haiku Canada Review 20:1, February 2026, page 93. Written 10 June 2025 at a picnic at the north end of Boulevard Park in Bellingham, Washington (with Victor’s verse added later). In the evening, Haiku Northwest gave a reading for Glimmering Hour, its 35th anniversary anthology, at Carla Shafer’s Chuckanut Sandstone Writers Theater at Village Books in Bellingham.       +

algae blooming

where the sea stars were

swoop of a kite Michael Dylan Welch

a sundog fading

over the harbor Elaine Miller Bond

slack tide

sails luffing

in the wind Carla Shafer

the blue bikini

flips to her back John S Green

wispy cirrus

rumpled creases

in a picnic blanket Alan S. Bridges

the coast train

curves round the bay Victor Ortiz