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| Issue 22: | 4 Feb. 2024 |
| Micro-Haibun: | 36 words |
By Alexis Rotella
After My Mother’s Burial
“We didn’t know your brother had a sister. In all the years we’ve hung out with him at the lake, he never mentioned you.”
at the end of a sentence wind chimes
Alexis Rotella
is an American poet, editor, artist, hypnotherapist, acupuncturist, and student of Chinese and energy medicine. She is author/editor of 40 books mostly related to Japanese poetry forms in English. Her latest book of haiga, Scattered Sunflowers, is about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She served as President of the Haiku Society of America, and editor of its house organ Frogpond (1984), and honorary curator of the American Haiku Archive. Rotella is founder and editor of several leading journals. Her mobile phone art has been exhibited internationally. She resides in Greensboro, North Carolina.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Reciprocity, a haibun by Rotella in Thoughts About the Earth Series, Silver Birch Press (17 January 2022)
⚡ Time on My Butt, a tanka prose by Rotella about “waiting waiting waiting rooms” (30 October 2021)
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