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Hifsa Ashraf is from Pakistan. She writes short stories, and poetry in different languages (Urdu, English, and Punjabi). Her haiku, senryu, tanka, and haiga have been published in different online journals. She won third place in the Annual Tanka Contest 2017 by Mandy’s Pages. Her short stories have been published in a UK-based English magazine.
We are plodding up the hill to the school’s playground
and the three-year-old who peers through his black
ringlets to see the world is holding my mittened hand,
is interrupting my answer to ask his question a third time;
I will inhale slowly, answer him evenly, the same way, hoping this
time he will let it sink in. For real. We are walking through clouds.
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Meghan DePeau’s work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, One Sentence Poems, Connecticut River Review, Common Ground Review, and Freshwater. She won CGR’s annual poetry contest in 2016. She also received the Outstanding Young Poet Award and won the annual writing contest at Manchester Community College in 2016.
rainy afternoon…
how scattered the sky
in all those puddles
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Praniti Gulyani is from New Delhi, India. She likes writing haiku and haibun and has work featured in many online journals including Modern Haiku and Bones Haiku Journal. Praniti has also had her work selected for publication in the Red Moon Anthology by Jim Kacian.
we’re still expecting
some survivors home
-paper smoke
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Chibųìhè Obi has been published in Brittle Paper, Expound Magazine, Praxis, The Kalahari Review etc. A Pushcart nominee, he’s the winner of the Brittle Paper Anniversary Award, The Inaugral Babishai Niwe Haiku Prize, and currently on the Gerald Kraak award shortlist. He teaches Literature to high school students and is experimenting with micropoetry and minimalist photography.
stormwater drain
men fishing
bodies
out
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Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy is a psychiatrist from Bengaluru India, living in England. A trained vocalist and a composer in Indian Classical Music, he writes in Kannada, Sankethi, Tamil and English languages. His haikai writings have been published in reputed journals and anthologies and won prizes, worldwide. He is currently the Editor of the Blithe Spirit, journal of The British Haiku Society.
(Watch BIll Waters’ video “through my eyelids” on Vimeo)
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Bill Waters, a lifelong poet and writer, lives in Pennington, New Jersey, U.S.A., with his wonderful wife and their two amazing cats. You can find more of his micropoetry at Bill Waters ~~ Haiku.
What if the monster in your dream is just you?
same coin
the shadow
and the self
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Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is an award-winning poet who has been featured in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Acorn, Presence, and many other publications. She is the founder and director of The Co-op Poetry Lab. To read more of her work visit after pink.
on the edge of town
coyotes
telling all our secrets
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Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco lives in California’s Central Valley and co-edits One Sentence Poems. Her chapbook, Various Lies, is available from Finishing Line Press.
We had been marching along the shore day after day, slower and slower it seemed, but we were approaching the city—that great city!—at last. Yet when we awoke the next morning, dizzy with hunger, we were astonished to see the city’s towers shining brightly in the sunlight far behind us.
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Grove Koger is the author of When the Going Was Good: A Guide to the 99 Best Narratives of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure, and Assistant Editor of Laguna Beach Art Patron Magazine, Palm Springs Art Patron Magazine, and Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal. He blogs at World Enough.
