Haven’t had one in ten years, yet at times we can’t escape them. At the gym, the laundry room, the electronics store with every rectangular species.
Sometimes, we stop and try to place what we’re seeing. Haven’t we been here before? The versions of a narrative that more and more confounds us.
twenty-four-hour news
channeling
a dying planet
is an award-winning cherita poet and a nominee for Best of the Net and Dwarf Star.
His short-form works (haiku, senryu, haibun, and cherita) have been widely published
in print and online journals and anthologies, including Failed Haiku, Haibun
Today, KYSO Flash, The Aurorean, and The Cherita; and have been
translated into Chinese, German, and Italian. He is the author of two books:
a collection of haiku and senryu, Steel Cut Moon (Cholla Needles Press, 2019),
and a chapbook of haibun, No Velcro Here (Yavanika Press, 2019).
Peter is a licensed clinical social worker who’s worked as a counselor in a
variety of settings for more than 30 years. Born in Connecticut, he lived in
Philadelphia for many years before relocating to Southern California, where he now
lives with his family in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park.
