Untitled shahai © 2023. All rights reserved.
Photograph © by Eric Prouzet* and haiku © by Brian Kates.

garden buddha 
  in the snow  
       prayer shawl

*Publisher’s Note:

Links below were retrieved on 6 September 2023:

A statue of Buddha covered by snow is a photograph by Eric Prouzet from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (published 6 February 2022 at Unsplash). For more info about the photographer and his work, see Contributor Profile.

Photograph in shahai image above is used under the long-form licensing agreement at Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/license

Brian Kates

is an award-winning author. His journalism has won a Pulitzer Prize and other honors. His poetry has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Third Wednesday, The Banyan Review, Common Ground Review, The Ekphrastic Review, and elsewhere. His work was nominated for Best of the Net in 2021 and 2022. He lives with his wife in a house in the woods in the lower Hudson Valley of New York.

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ A Lifelong Bachelor, poem by Brian Kates in Third Wednesday (20 June 2023)

⚡ Everlasting, poem by Kates in Amethyst Review (September 2022)