short form poetry Archives -

Haiku

mother in a mood again feathers fall

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Progress

My appreciation to guest editor Allyson Whipple for curating the fantastic issue 97 and including my haibun, “Progress.” The cat chatters in the window, and I read while crows destroy the front lawn.…

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Haiku

edge of seventeen a mindful traveler leaves a cairn

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First Date

not every encounter will be the one but the one will come from some chance meeting so you show up more aware of yourself than the night before give soothing strokes to your…

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Wabi Masters

Truly honoured guest editor Jerome Berglund included me in Setu Special Edition: Masters Series Part II: Wabi, Urban Decay: Masters of Wabi: Featured Poets. Read Berglund’s superlative series here. Here are two of…

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C. Jean Downer writes traditional whodunits with a magical twist. She's a self-proclaimed expert in the field, with thousands of mystery books, television episodes, and movies to her reading and viewing credit. Even her family refuses to watch mysteries with her because of her gifts of deduction unless she zips it. If she was younger and braver, she'd trade her Ph.D. for a PI in a heartbeat! C’est la vie. Downer is the author of Lies Are Forever, the first book of the Sloane West Mysteries, and a published poet. She lives in White Rock, British Columbia, with her wife of twenty-plus years, their two fabulous daughters, two lazy dogs, and three chill cats.