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Sonnet 4 in 2020 in
Central Coast Poetry Shows March 24, 2020
Sonnet Beginning with Lines by Milarepa, Via Negativa, and Does the Wail Diminish in
Coachella Review January 15, 2020
Smoke Signals in
Rye Whiskey Review January 1, 2020
To Scatter Blue Light in
Solo Novo 7/8
Psalms of Cinder & Silt October, 2019
Twelve Bar Lullaby: A Blues for Geoffrey in
Rye Whiskey Review October 12, 2019
Hiking Mogollon Rim in
California Quarterly [print only] September 9, 2019
Christian Loidl: 1957 - 2001 in
The American Journal of Poetry July 1, 2019
Haibun: Cliff Lovers in
Haibun Journal (Scotland) [print only] August 1, 2019
An Episode in Early Sonoran History, circa 1983 in
Mojave River Review July 1, 2019
They had pride and looked at death with honor instead of surrendering. Enjoyed reading your perspective of the Japanese women choosing suicide.
Your haiku sadly says it all …between it all people died.
You offer a poignant portrait of how both sides viewed the war that would end in nuclear holocaust. I love how you characterized both your grandfather and the Japanese women in so few lines. You closing haiku is so beautifully raw. Thank you, M.J.
That haiku stirs up a lot of emotions. Brilliant poetry on a grey topic.
A poignant write….full of details and so visceral in the portraits you portray. Excellent haiku to complete the write.
That is such a powerful piece of writing. You capture the moral bankruptcy of war so well, and the haiku is a stunner.
Maybe the choice of suicide was more relating to horrors they were told would happen… there must have been a lot of wartime propaganda to make people believe that there was no alternative.