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| Issue 34: | Sept. 2026 |
| Micro-Haibun: | 39 words |
By Beverly A. Tift
How to Scramble Your Day
Because a tall woman in a 1926 surrealist poem was beating eggs with her fingers, I’m dancing across the floor and nothing in me is the same.
birdsong opens the kitchen window singing sunlight
Note:
Inspired by an image in the poem “To Be Caught in the Trap” by Paul Éluard.
To read the poem online, see page 6 of “20 Short Poems from Capital of Pain by Paul Éluard” translated by Mary Ann Caws, Patricia Terry, and Nancy Kline, at KBOO Community Radio in Portland OR (link retrieved on 31 August 2026):
https://kboo.fm/sites/default/files/20_SHORT_POEMS_from_ELUARD's_CAPITAL_OF_PAIN.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com
Beverly A. Tift
writes haibun, tanka prose, and haiku. Her recent work explores the absurd, the surreal, and other oddities. Some of her work has also appeared in Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands Haibun, Frogpond Journal, Haibun Today, Heliosparrow Poetry Journal, The Heron’s Nest, Only Human, and Wales Haiku Journal.
Beverly invites you to stop by her Facebook page where she posts her newly published wonders, and flashbacks from 2007–2013 in no particular order: https://www.facebook.com/share/18r95gaQ1F/
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ When the Sun Goes Wild, OWP haibun by Beverly A. Tift in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 33, August 2026)
⚡ The Arcane Art of Sky Writing, OWP tanka prose by Beverly A. Tift in MacQ-33 (August 2026)
⚡ Coffee with Frida Kahlo, haibun story by Tift in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 32, June 2026)
⚡ 14 Code-ku and a code-bun by Tift in Heliosparrow Poetry Journal (August, June, March, and February 2026)
⚡ The Gift of Orion, haibun by Tift in Only Human: english language senryu (Issue 1.1, April 2026)
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