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| Issue 30: | Sept. 2025 |
| Cheribun: | 75 words |
Poem and photograph
by Gary S. Rosin
Curtains?
When I searched for my name on Google, among the results was a link to a photo I had posted on Instagram. The link did not have a preview with a thumbnail of a close-up of pink blossoms on bare branches. Instead, it said that the photo “may be an image of curtains.”
cherry plum blossoms cover curtains around a four-poster bed but do not flutter in A/C breezes a hint of perfume
Gary S. Rosin
is a Contributing Editor of MacQueen’s Quinterly. His poetry, haiga, and shahai have appeared, or are forthcoming, in various literary reviews and anthologies, including Chaos Dive Reunion (Mutabilis Press, 2023); contemporary haibun (Volume 17, Red Moon Press, 2022); Concho River Review; The Ekphrastic Review; Sulphur River Literary Review; Texas Poetry Calendar; and Visions International.
Two of his ekphrastic poems appear in Silent Waters, photographs by George Digalakis (Athens, 2017). Rosin is the author of two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing, 1990) and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum, 2008). His poems “Black Dogs” and “Viewing the Dead” were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Icelandic Reflections by Gary S. Rosin in The Ekphrastic Review (4 August 2024)
⚡ Four Poems After Photographs by Rosin in The Ekphrastic Review (4 June 2023)
⚡ Three Poems by Rosin (published March–May 2023) in dadakuku, experimental poetry of lilliputian length
⚡ Night Wind, ekphrastic poem by Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 15, September 2022); nominated for Best of the Net
⚡ Black Dogs, poem by Rosin in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 12, March 2022), which was subsequently nominated by MacQ for the Pushcart Prize.
See also Two Readings: “Apparition” and “Black Dogs” by Rosin for Texas Poetry Calendar 2015 at the Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, Texas (20 September 2014).
⚡ 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 Issue 7 of MacQ (March 2021)
⚡ Crossing Kansas in The Wild Word (7 February 2020); includes audio of Rosin reading his poem
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