Issue 1: | January 2020 |
Haiga, with Haiku: | 9 words |
+ Visual Art: | Photograph |
Somewhere between
shadows and the horizon
waiting to fly
*Publisher’s Note:
Photograph of Lake Biwa, Resting Place Mono, was uploaded to Flickr on
16 August 2019 and is copyrighted by Richard Hunter. All rights reserved.
feels grateful and privileged to have grown up on the west coast of Scotland. During that time he spent many years working as a forester in and around the hills and lochs. He grew to love the soft surreal light created by the frequent misty days that would change the landscape into a silent monochromatic minimalistic world. To him, those gently lit landscapes were beautiful, full of mood and mystery. The mood and mystery of his native landscape have remained with him, and influence his images wherever he goes.
See more of his work at Flickr and 500px.
poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines and anthologies, including Concho River Review, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga, Poetry24, Texas Poetry Calendar, Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press), The Legal Studies Forum, Visions International, and elsewhere. His poem “Viewing the Dead” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of his ekphrastic poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017).
He is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008) (offprint). Selections of Gary’s poetry and photography can be found on his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com
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