Floating (collaborative shahai) © 2022. All rights reserved.
Photograph © by Jana Craighead Smith and haiku © by Gary S. Rosin.

a rising full Moon
the Rabbit has not yet hopped
above the mesa

Publisher’s Notes:

1. The photograph Floating by Jana Craighead Smith was posted to her Facebook page on 8 November 2022.

2. “The Moon rabbit or Moon hare is a mythical figure in East Asian and indigenous American folklore, based on pareidolia interpretations that identify the dark markings on the near side of the Moon as a rabbit or hare” (Wikipedia; link retrieved on 23 December 2022):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit

Jana Craighead Smith

is a landscape and wildlife photographer who lives in southern Utah and frequently posts her photographs to Facebook. Her father was environmentalist and grizzly bear researcher Frank Cooper Craighead (1916–2001), and she is married to river runner Ron Smith, founder of Grand Canyon Expeditions.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Ron Smith’s River Canoes by Jana Smith and Herm Hoops (2014), archived at the University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections

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 poems “Black Dogs” and “Viewing the Dead” were nominated for the 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

⚡ Out of the Haze, collaborative haiga with photograph by George Digalakis and poem by Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 8, June 2021); nominated for, and selected for publication in, Contemporary Haibun 17 (Red Moon Press, 2022)

⚡ Featured Poet: Gary S. Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 7, March 2021)

⚡ Crossing Kansas in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of Rosin 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); see also Black Dogs here in MacQ (Issue 12, March 2022).