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bruise-toned night
things she remembers
things she doesn’t<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Chen-ou Liu, Canada<\/small>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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hay ride 
finally reaching 
our last straw<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Leon Tefft, USA<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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dried river
the bed full of pebbles
marks a lifetime<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Shiva, India<\/small>\n\n\n\n

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angel\u2019s wing mushroom
not a flutter
on the ultrasound<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Adele Evershed, USA<\/small>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\n About\n <\/div>\n
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\n Chen-ou Liu<\/strong> is the author of five books, including “Following the Moon to the Maple Land” (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and “A Life in Transition and Translation” (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Competition). His tanka and haiku have been honored with many awards.\n <\/p>\n\n \n\n \n

\n Leon Tefft<\/strong> is a writer, poet and author of Haiku Evolution and Haiku Traditions from Greenville, South Carolina. He is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the Tanka Society of America. You can see more of Leon\u2019s work and connect with him at\n\n leontefft.com\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n

\n Shiva<\/strong> is a doctor by profession, surgeon by passion and a mother at heart. She loves to wonder and ponder at small and big miracles of nature which transcend as life.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\n Adele Evershed<\/strong> is a Welsh writer who swapped the Valleys for the American East Coast. Her haiku and senryu appear in Modern Haiku, Presence, Wales Haiku Journal, Frogpond, and Akitsu Quarterly, among others; she was shortlisted for a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation and recently received a Golden Pea Award. She is the author of Pressed Between Palms (Nun Prophet Press) with a forthcoming collection from Cuttlefish Books.\n<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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