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Issue 9: | August 2021 |
Micro-Poem: | 33 words |
[Split | Sequence] |
blood rare first slice touching on those tender places the richness butternut squash how the butter needs no excuse of a first kiss extra creamy how she likes to be stirred
See also the poet’s craft essay, “Love Thing”: The Allure of the Split Sequence.
is an award-winning cherita poet, a Best of the Net and Dwarf Star nominee, and the author of six books of haiku-based writing. Titles include Steel Cut Moon (Cholla Needles Press, 2019), and two from Yavanika Press, No Velcro Here (2019) and The Silence We Came For (2020). His short-form writing has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Failed Haiku, Haibun Today, KYSO Flash, MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Aurorean, and The Cherita.
In 2017, Peter invented a new linked form that is haiku-centered called “split sequence.” His most recent book, Just Dust and Stone (Velvet Dusk Publishing, May 2021), is a collection of collaborative split sequences co-written with Bryan Rickert.
⚡ Inheritance, a collaborative split sequence with Christine Villa, here in MacQ-9
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