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| Issue 33: | August 2026 |
| Cheribun: | 98 words |
By Susan Burch
Am I Becoming Unhinged?
my skin pooling now in my back will it one day slough off of me a stretched-out carcass
I’ve always wondered if I’m an alien. Am I here from another planet as a beta test, where I don’t even know I’m an alien and think I’m human? And I appear human in every way, down to the tiny mole on my arm, but I’m really something else, something completely different inside?
it’s a quagmire do I try to repair this failing body or let it go where it takes me, even if it’s evil
—Short-listed Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #4
Susan Burch
is a good egg.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Eight Haiku by Susan Burch in Pulse: voices from the heart of medicine (between August 2024 and June 2015)
⚡ Too Late, tanka prose by Burch in contemporary haibun online 20.1 (April 2024)
⚡ Winning by Default, tiny haibun by Burch in The Other Bunny (22 January 2024)
⚡ Wi(n)dow, haibun by Burch in contemporary haibun online 19.3 (December 2023)
⚡ TANKA TAKE HOME: Susan Burch, poet of the month in Trivenai Haikai India (25 October 2023)
⚡ New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners—Susan Burch, interviewed by Julie Bloss Kelsey for The Haiku Foundation Blog, Troutswirl (3 October 2021)
⚡ Three Tanka by Burch reprinted at The Tanka Society of America (2017)
⚡ Meet Susan Burch: Downtown DC’s Most Famous Haiku Poet by Emily Codik at The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award (13 March 2015)
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