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lingering snow grandfather’s silent accordion © Martha Magenta Cattails, the journal of the United Haiku & Tanka Society – April 2018 http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsApril2018.pdf Advertisements
Haiku Windows: window box
window box a tiny bird skeleton among the leaves © Martha Magenta Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, March 28, 2018 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/03/28/haiku-windows-window-box/
9th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest 2017 – Selected Haiku Collection
fallen cherry buds . . . heavy rain falls on the tiny coffin still pool . . . the silence broken by the plop of an otter – Martha Magenta Selected Haiku Submissions Collection The 9th Yamadera … Continue reading
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Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse (haibun)
Entering the waiting room, everyone leaves a vacant seat between themselves and the next patient. Until it becomes so full, that late arrivals squeeze into the in-between seats, trying not to touch the patients next to them. I gaze … Continue reading
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rippling moon the plop of an otter in the pool robin’s egg on the ground fractured sky north wind her ashes find their way home © Martha Magenta Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017 http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html
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churchyard lichen the living and dead in symbiosis © Martha Magenta Cattails – the journal of the United Haiku & Tanka Society October, 2017 http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails_final_Oct2017.pdf with Editor’s Choice and commentary: “Martha Magenta’s haiku balances many things and the … Continue reading →