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Issue 16: 1 Jan. 2023
Micro-Poem: 31 words
Split Sequence
By Richard L. Matta

Heating Up

 
bookmarking 
	countless threads 
	on the internet 
	climate change 

The Good Earth 
	spinning 
	in a dust devil 
	plastic 

a brittle leaf 
	one flitting shadow 
	on a blooming field 
	the monarch

Richard L. Matta
Issue 16 (1 January 2023)

grew up in New York’s rustic Hudson Valley, attended Notre Dame, practiced forensic science, and now lives in San Diego with his golden-doodle dog. Some of his work is found in Dewdrop, New Verse News, San Pedro River Review, Gyroscope, Healing Muse, and many journals of haiku, haibun, and tanka.

 
 
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