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Issue 14: August 2022
Haibun: 67 words
By Cynthia Anderson

Territory

 

The bobcat’s back, same one as yesterday—bold, black-and-white racing stripes on legs and ears. Crouched at the water dish, he laps like any domestic cat. After a stretch, he curls in the shade of the juniper, tail twitching. His last gesture before leaving: at the tree’s perimeter, he paws the dirt, poops, and covers it up.

desert trails
the camouflage
of shape-shifters

Cynthia Anderson
Issue 14, August 2022

A California resident and poet for more than 40 years, Cynthia Anderson is the author of eleven books, most recently a collection of haiku and senryu entitled Full Circle (Cholla Needles, 2022). Her poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies, and she has received multiple nominations for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. In 2020, she took up short-form poetry including haiku, senryu, cherita, haibun, and split sequences. Her recent work focuses on the natural world and her family history.

Cynthia is co-editor of the anthology A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens (Green Poet Press). She makes her home in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park.

Author’s website: www.cynthiaandersonpoet.com

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Formerly Known as Ion, haibun by Cynthia Anderson which was nominated by MacQ for the Red Moon Anthologies, and selected for publication in Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022).

 
 
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