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

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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