December 2021
Peter Jastermsky / Lorraine Padden
Peter Jastermsky: desertratbooks@gmail.com
Lorraine Padden: lorraine@liebold.com
Bio Note - Peter: I am a haiku-based poet and write all the short forms that are part of this lineage. In 2017, I invented a new linked form that is haiku-centered called a split sequence. I live with my family in the high desert near Joshua Tree National Park. Published books include Steel Cut Moon (Cholla Needles Press), Just Dust and Stone (Velvet Dusk Publishing), and Fingerbone Sky (Yavanika Press).

Bio Note - Lorraine: I live in San Diego, California. My haiku and related poetry appear in Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest, tinywords, Frogpond, and Kingfisher, among others. I won Tricycle Magazine's 2021 Best of the Haiku Challenge, and one of my rengay received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Association of America's 2021 Competition in Honor of Garry Gay.

Indelible

ragged nails

hospital waiting room
some doors open
some close

what she impresses

intern eyes
a deer caught
in her headlights

upon him
 
graveside
clutching the dirt
still on her hands

Peter Jastermsky
Lorraine A Padden

Silencing

darkened room

autumn light
hurting the eyes
less and less

her mother removes

sign of the cross
all the words
we shouldn’t say

another book

turning the page
a voice disappears
without a trace

Peter Jastermsky
Lorraine A Padden
©2021 Peter Jastermsky / Lorraine Padden
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