Issue 35 – Haiga

weaned
all the things I can do
baby-free

Agnes Eva Savich, USA (senryu) &  Elizabeth Gold, Sweden (photograph)


spent
with three hands––
vacation time

Anannya Dasgupta, India


gender reassignment the scarred mesa of your chest

Debbie Strange, Canada


kelp canopy
I wander the minds
of an octopus

GRIX, USA (senryu) & Shloka Shankar, India (artwork)


second shot
distancing myself
from distancing myself

Kevin Valentine, USA (senryu) & Steve Valentine, USA (artwork)


Sunday roast . . .
our unexpected guest
rubs his hands

Marion Clarke, Northern Ireland


mirror . . .
how many false selves
do i have?

Michael Morell, USA


lofty shrine . . .
I search the I
in me

Milan Rajkumar, India


Thanksgiving
wanting more
than equality

Nika, Canada

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2021 6th Annual H. Gene Murtha Memorial Contest Winners

First Place:

courtroom––
how white the shirt
of the rapist

— Arvinder Kaur


Second Place:

first cry . . .
I too am born
a mother

— Agnes Eva Savich


Third Place:

white privilege––
a protester asks
to use the bathroom

—Kelley White


Read all 2021 honorable mentions and judges’ comments (PDF)

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