early afternoon
i lose myself
in the color
of
tea
Orrin PréJean
sweeping river willows for a moment nothing matters
Orrin PréJean
from Dewdrop World, Cuttlefish Books, 2021
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).