Jerome Berglund
&
Michele Rule
Sunflower
bat
longer
days
confuse
circadian rhythms
maple
tree
sleeping sunlit
last snow
treading
newly mopped floor
near closing time
hanged man reversed
cat
walks backward
under
a black ladder
good-luck
charm
Christina Chin
& Jerome Berglund
Snickering
escalating
tensions
posterity
—
giving
directions
to a
place you don’t know
noisy
blackbirds
the
empty swing
hangs
from a huge bough
wind
creaks the chains
at the
birdfeeder
maybe
they’ll
send
help back
ten of
swords
Jerome Berglund
&
Marjorie Pezzoli
Masterpiece
sunflower paintings
roasted seeds
muffled ears
open your eyes
underwater
green goddess
dressing
the part
broken drier
sun dried tomatoes
water boils
frog doesn’t care
Kati Mohr
&
Jerome Berglund
Carnival of the Animals
squirrels
angel wings of decay
on the red tenement:
pose for photos
barely scratching at
sound of dew
a sand gecko licks
its eyeballs
sorry
flood waters
reach the roof
sob story
Jerome Berglund
& Sherry Grant
Collapse
armageddon
genre:
home
videos
every
channel
woollen blankets
over the snow
slugs
from magnum
with
gleeful abandon
Virgil’s chicken
scratch
scorching sun
dwindling eyes
of a whale
floating
barriers catch offal
theoretical
physics
twin moons
an ancient name
long forgotten
Michele Rule is a disabled poet from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele is published in OYEDrum, Five Minute Lit, Pocket Lint, WordCityLit, the Lothlorien, and the anthology Poets for Ukraine, among others. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets. Michele’s first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. She lives with a sleepy dog, two cats, and a fantastic partner.
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
Marjorie Pezzoli is a visual artist who took up poetry in 2018.
Her artwork and observations inspire many of her poems. Writing helps Marjorie
find clarity and insights to life. Finding the words worth more than 1000
images is a wonderful and powerful pursuit that brings Ms. Pezzoli joy. www.Pezzoliart.com
Kati Mohr (she/they), born 1976, is a disabled,
intuitive artist, known online as pi & anne, who lives in Germany with her
family and two rabbits. She likes to jump into old ponds to pull up lost cargo,
mostly in the form of poetry (but not exclusively!). Her art aims at tracing
the filters humans apply; as how we see things says more about us than about
the things themselves. Being a member of her city’s disability council is one
of the means she chooses to empower and support people. Her heart beats for
minimalist art, coffee, cuddles & pancakes.
Sherry Grant is a Taiwan-born NZ concert pianist, cellist,
poet and translator. She is the author of ‘Bat Girl’ and the inventor of
‘nonaku’ poetry form. Sherry organised and performed 12 concerts in 2019,
mostly with viola. Her youngest daughter, 7-year-old Zoe Grant, writes with her
frequently. Sherry is the national/international outreach officer at NZPS since
2021. Apart from music, she also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
Jerome Berglund has a background in film, television,
and fine art photography. His poetry work includes published or
forthcoming haiku, senryu and tanka in Frogpond, Modern Haiku,
Ribbons, rengay in Otoroshi and Starlight, split sequences in Scarlet
Dragonfly, tan-renga in Five Fleas. His first full-length collection
Bathtub Poems was just released by Setu Press. Writing Publications.
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