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heatwave (haiku)

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MOONSET - June 2007 (hardcopy) spring/summer issue of the newspaper  

sorting through things (tanka)

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January 2007 Modern English Tanka    

around town (haibun)

 ~     I hesitate. Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes time to adjust. A spill of cracked spines, piled one on top of the other bulging floor-to-ceiling marked by the occasional cock-eyed, hand-written sign, a promise of some kind of order. shadows curtain the alcove— a beard coughs Sections run into each other;  Literature, Do-It-Yourself, History, Cooking  is separated from  Self Help  turning a corner You will find  Tasmania  along a wall down the hallway, past a sprawling jumble of random miscellany and comics. There is nothing here for me. I head for the street. Fantasy by the disappearing staircase I hesitate. ~~~ published Haibun Today Feb 2009 slight changes above compared to the one accepted below ~ I hesitate.   Stepping sideways through the unfamiliar door, I shuffle between sagging, purpose-built shelves, moving slowly to give my eyes t...

the magpie (tanka)

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  ©Regina Piroska (Gina) Catchment edition4  Australian Haiku Society   21 June 2025  a nod to Wiliam Carlos Williams " The Red Wheelbarrow "

the moan (tanka)

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  3lights gallery 2008

Our Dreams Grow (tanka)

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  3lightsgallery jan-march 2008

Images - Collage and Photography

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Swiss Miss (Implosure) 40″x34″; collage on a print of a collage on rag paper; 2015 published KOLAJ February 2018 Swiss Miss - so what's the story? Swiss Miss - the movie I have decided to bring onto this site, any of my collage and photography that are award winners and/or published. There are so many places to find me already I decided not to add another 2. !  Bringing them onto the poetry site makes the most sense, i think.  Let me Know what you think. I begin with Kolaj way back in 2018 with these few collages published. Current collage available for sale are listed here. are you interested in what goes on in the studio ?  

tall and straight now (tanka)

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  published  Modern English Tanka   December 2007   volume2 number2 (hardcopy)