By Keith Evetts

on the one hand

I couldn't live

forever wondering

what's on

the other hand 

 

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

dandelion seeds

the confetti

of my childhood

Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

everything i no longer crave after the forest

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Keith Evetts

square moon someone else's god

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

my

forties –

a

time

of

ma-

ny

ad-

just-

ments

Orrin PréJean

Through the Telescope: Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

We congratulate frequent contributor Tiffany Shaw-Diaz, recognized as a top-eight volunteer (of more than 6,000) for the NASA citizen science project, Active Asteroids. Way to go, Tiffany!

 

 

By Orrin PréJean

summer day

going over month's budget

shirtless

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

pasque flowers

what if everything

is true

Keith Evetts

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

fire crackles the algebra within a petal

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Orrin PréJean

in the night suspended between shadow and more shadow

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

so many birds my empty hands

Keith Evetts

from every angle by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

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By Orrin PréJean

derailed train

*

 

how apt

a metaphor

of my life 

  

Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany-Shaw Diaz

i am everywhere the wave unfurls

Tiffany-Shaw Diaz

By Keith Evetts

last page ripped out

we'll never know

who did it

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

early afternoon

i lose myself

in the color

of tea

Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

the rain on my body remembering yours

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Keith Evetts

memoirs

it turns out

life was wonderful

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

viola concerto a moment when things makes sense

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

winter three crows are company

Keith Evetts

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

on forgiving the wind i am weary

by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Orrin PréJean

sweeping river willows for a moment nothing matters

Orrin PréJean

from Dewdrop World, Cuttlefish Books, 2021 

 

 

and you will rise again by Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

To purchase any of this artist’s works: society6(dot)com 

 

By Keith Evetts

politics

and religion

believing they're true

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

snake oil salesman...

i hurry past a church

this Sunday

Orrin PréJean

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

more radioactive than a lily after rain

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

By Keith Evetts

lazy Sunday

what do woodpeckers

think about it

Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

streetlamps lined up like toy soldiers...protecting who?

Orrin PréJean

helix by Tiffany Shaw Diaz

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By Keith Evetts

fourth of July

almost as auspicious

as last year

Keith Evetts

By Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

swaying in dawn's blush an ancient dialect

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020).

By Orrin PréJean

sleepy this morning

i am unsure how long

i wait for the bus

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

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Keith Evetts

By Orrin PréJean

vacation in Belgium

the narrative i tell

the marigolds

Orrin PréJean

By Keith Evetts

Forbidden Planet

my little daughter

wants to go there

Keith Evetts

A former biologist and retired British diplomat, Keith Evetts has published papers in Nature and other scientific periodicals, and long-form poetry in The Oxford Magazine and elsewhere. His haiku and related forms have appeared in Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, Blithe Spirit, Prune Juice, Asahi Shimbun, Cold Moon Journal, Failed Haiku, Heliosparrow, Mamba, Fireflies’ Light, Haiku In Action, Cattails, World Haiku Review, Presence, Poetry Pea, Sonic Boom, MacQueens Quinterly, and at The Haiku Foundation; and award-winning cherita and gembun in The Cherita books and the Gembun anthologies. Listed in the top 100 European haikuists, he hosts the haiku commentary feature re:Virals at The Haiku Foundation. Married, with five children, a grey parrot and a sense of humour.

By Orrin PréJean

late morning nap my dreams much like snakes in a snake pit

Orrin PréJean

Orrin PréJean, from Port Arthur, Texas, came to EL Short Poetry around 2006. In 2013 he began writing tanka and has since published two collections of tanka. Orrin now focuses on the history and current practices of senryu and is a senryu poet with his first ebook collection of senryu titled October’s Kid.

Featured Poets for July

Announcing our featured poets for July:

Orrin PréJean

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz

Keith Evetts