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| Issue 22: | 4 Feb. 2024 |
| Poem: | 67 words |
| (Tanshi | Sequence) |
By Farah Ali
Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters, 1885
moonless night the oil lamp’s meagre glow creaking wood peasant bones settle around the table low ceiling on tired shoulders the weight of tomorrow honest work hollow eyes avoid hollow eyes hunger pains another forkful of harvest tilling soil each silent mouth full of earth muddy river beyond the fields bitter coffee dreamless sleep no twinkling stars in our night sky
The Potato Eaters (oil on canvas, 1885) by Vincent van Gogh
(1853-1890) is held by the Van Gogh Museum
(link retrieved on 7 January 2024):
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0005v1962
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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