bare branches
snow and a chickadee
falling blues

Mésange kamikaze (Kamikaze Titmouse)
Photograph (16 January 2021)*

Copyrighted © by Nicole Barge. All rights reserved.
Image appears here with her permission.

*Publisher’s Note:

Photograph was posted by the artist to her Facebook page on 18 January 2021 with this caption: “Mésange suicidaire! St-Narcisse, Québec, le 16 janvier 2021.”

Nicole Barge

French by origin and Canadian by adoption, Nicole Barge discovered photography when very young, and it has been part of her life for more than 50 years. She enjoys nature photography and prefers poetic, ethereal images, or particular atmospheres and lights such as chiaroscuro, color harmony. Self-taught, she works with Canon equipment and gives workshops in macro photography for members of a photo club she co-founded in France.

Her work appears in several publications: Image et Nature (France), Savoir tout faire en photographie (France), Photo-Solution (Quebec), and DSLR Photography (UK), and has been exhibited solo at the College Photo Gosselin in Quebec. Collective exhibits include: with her photo club; at the contemporary space of Quebec (art gallery); and twice at the Dorion-Coulombe house.

Website: https://bleunature.zenfolio.com/

Gary S. Rosin’s

poetry and haiga have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary and poetry magazines such as Concho River Review, Eastern Structures, Failed Haiku, Harbinger Asylum, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry24, The Legal Studies Forum, The Lift, The Wild Word, and Visions International; as well as in several anthologies, including contemporary haibun (Volume 17, Red Moon Press, 2022), Faery Footprints (Fae Corp Publishing), Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku & Haiga (Dos Gatos Press), Texas Poetry Calendar (Kallisto Gaia Press), Untameable City: Poems on the Nature of Houston (Mutabilis Press), and elsewhere.

His poem “Viewing the Dead” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Two of his poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). He is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008) (offprint).

Selections of Gary’s poetry and photography can be found at his website, 4P Creations: http://4pcreations.com

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Crossing Kansas by Gary S. Rosin in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of the poet reading his poem

⚡ Two Readings: “Apparition” and “Black Dogs” by Gary S. Rosin for Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas (20 September 2014)