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| Issue 22: | 4 Feb. 2024 |
| Micro-Poem: | 29 words |
| (Split | Sequence) |
By Farah Ali
Gaslight
deep snow withered field clouds of hair drift and fall a stricken heartbeat hoarfrost blue nails clutch the marriage quilt in diminuendo endless winter footsteps recede into shadow
Publisher’s Note:
To learn more about this poetic form, please see “An Introduction to Split Sequences” by the form’s creator, Peter Jastermsky, in Frogpond (Volume 45.1, Winter 2022).
Farah Ali
Based in the UK, Farah Ali writes fiction and poetry with a particular love for the short form. Nominated for the Touchstone Awards [The Haiku Foundation], she won First Place in the UHTS Fleeting Words Tanka Contest 2023 [United Haiku and Tanka Society], received a merit award in the 34th Ito En Oi Ocha Shinhaiku contest, and an honourable mention in the HPNC Haibun Contest 2023 [Haiku Poets of Northern California].
Her work has been published, and is forthcoming, in a variety of reputable online and print journals including Akitsu Quarterly, Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, cattails, Cicada’s Cry, contemporary haibun online, Drifting Sands Haibun, hedgerow, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Modern Haiku, Plum Tree Tavern, Presence, Right Hand Pointing, Wales Haiku Journal, and whiptail. Her supernatural Deerleap Hollow Series is available from Amazon.
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