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the Maple Leaf
flipping in the white drift \u2026
a hyphen
before “Canadian”
joins my two halves<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Chen-ou Liu , Canada <\/small>\n\n\n\n

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breaching whales
rise higher and higher
letting go
something she did
long time back<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Minal Sarosh, India<\/small>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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wandering after cawing fades into the winter dusk<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Hifsa Ashraf , Pakistan <\/small>\n\n\n\n

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creeping jenny
recalling names
more slowly now<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Leon Tefft,USA <\/small>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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last flame \u2014
marigold petals
folding her in<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2014 Vaishnavi Ramaswamy , India<\/small>\n\n\n\n

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\n About\n\n<\/div>\n\n

\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 Minal Sarosh<\/strong> is an awarded Indian English poet, novelist and haikuist. She has published two novels, Soil for My Roots ( 2015) and Wicked Money (2020) . And her two poetry collections are Mitosis & Other Poems ( 1992) and A Lizard\u2019s Tail and Other Poems (2020).\n<\/p>\n

\n Hifsa Ashraf <\/strong> is an award-winning multilingual poet, author, editor, and social activist from Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She is the author of six individual and four collaborative micropoetry books. She received the Touchstone Award (2021) and Honourable Mentions in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award (2020) and Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award (2021).\n<\/p>\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

\nVaishnavi Ramaswamy<\/strong> is a lover of poetry, languages, nature, wildlife and crystals.\n<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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