Collaborative haiga copyrighted © 2020.
Poem copyrighted © 2020 by Gary S. Rosin, and
photograph © 2019 by Grace Evans.* All rights reserved.

Sea star and shadow
trace a tangle of trails
how long to high tide

*Publisher’s Note:

Photograph of sea-star trails by Grace Evans, photographer with the National Parks Service, was posted on the South Padre National Seashore Facebook page on 29 December 2019; 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, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry24, The Legal Studies Forum, and Visions International; as well as in several anthologies, including 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 poem “Viewing the Dead” was nominated for a 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 on his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com