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| Issue 18: | 29 Apr. 2023 |
| Micro-Poem: | 22 words |
| Visual Art: | Photograph |
Poem by Gary S. Rosin
Photograph by Laura Mitchell
Awake
Something older than the forest has awakened. Full of hollow, its icy eye stares without blinking. It hungers for your soul.
—After a photograph by Laura Mitchell
Frozen Lake in Massachusetts (23 February 2019)
(Photograph shot during a retreat in Oxford, MA)
Copyrighted © 2019 by Laura Mitchell. All rights reserved.
Image appears here with her permission.
Gary S. Rosin’s
poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines such as Concho River Review, Eastern Structures, Failed Haiku, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry24, The Legal Studies Forum, The Lift, The Wild Word, and Visions International; as well as in several anthologies, including contemporary haibun (Volume 17, Red Moon Press, 2022), Faery Footprints (Fae Corp Publishing), Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press), Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press), Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press), and elsewhere.
His poems “Black Dogs” and “Viewing the Dead” were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Two of his 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 at his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Out of the Haze, collaborative haiga with photograph by George Digalakis and poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 8, June 2021); nominated for, and selected for publication in, Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022)
⚡ Featured Poet: Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 7, March 2021)
⚡ Crossing Kansas in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of Rosin reading his poem
⚡ Two Readings: “Apparition” and “Black Dogs” by Gary S. Rosin for Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas (20 September 2014).
See also Black Dogs here in MacQ (Issue 12, March 2022), which was nominated in October 2022 by MacQ for the 48th annual Pushcart Prize (2024 edition).
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