The downy grebe struggles in my hands as I leave the shore. I want to raise it, but Mother rows our dinghy across the lake and releases the baby near a floating nest. The next morning, I’ll paddle my kayak through reeds, find the drowned chick rising and falling on waves.

childless 
I finally 
make my will  

Ce Rosenow

is a writer, haiku poet and scholar, and educator who resides in Oregon. Her articles, essays, book reviews, and haiku and related forms are published widely in journals and anthologies in the USA and abroad. She is the author most recently of Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions (Lexington Books, 2022).

She is co-author with Maurice Hamington of Care Ethics and Poetry (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2019), which addresses the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics; one of four authors in The Color of Water edited by Carolyn Hall (Two Autumns Press, 2013); and one of eight authors in Beyond Within: A Collection of Rengay edited by Cherie Hunter Day (Sundog Press, 1997). Rosenow co-edited with Bob Arnold The Next One Thousand Years: The Selected Poems of Cid Corman (Longhouse Publishers, 2008).

The former president of the Haiku Society of America, Rosenow is Senior Editor for The Haiku Foundation’s JUXTA journal, Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku. She is also the former co-editor of Northwest Literary Forum and Portlandia Review of Books.

Author’s ePortfolio: https://rosenowce.wordpress.com/

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

⚡ Haibun: A Writer’s Guide, book review by Ce Rosenow in MacQueen’s Quinterly aka MacQ (Issue 24, August 2024)

⚡ Still Motion: Poems and Photographs, book review by Rosenow in MacQ (Issue 29, August 2025)

⚡ Wondrous Instruction and Advice from Global Poets: How to Write and Publish Moving Poems and Books and Publicize Like a Pro, book review by Rosenow in MacQ-29 (August 2025)