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| Issue 6: | January 2021 |
| Ekphrastic Cherita: | 29 words |
By Gary S. Rosin
Stare Down
A hawk in a pine. A house finch lands beside it, all of a sudden beak-to-beak and eye-to-eye, stunned into stillness they stare, calculate fortune and fate.
—After
an untitled photograph by Ann Baldwin on Facebook (17 July 2020).
[For those unable to access the image through the link above, please try
this alternative.]
Gary S. Rosin’s
poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines such as Concho River Review, Failed Haiku, 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
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