Mixed Forms: RJ Sobel’s Haibun “The Shortcut”
R J Sobel The Shortcut "I am so sad and everything is beautiful" by Harriet Garfinkle. Carefully mussed hair, ink smear on his neck, he catches up with me after class, [...]
September 2018
August 2018
Mixed Forms: Robin Smith’s Haibun “Carnival”
Robin Smith Carnival For his annual birthday trip, we travel to Mexico to drink cocktails and play on the beach… Easter rain delivering your confetti egg eulogy About the writer: Robin Smith [...]
Mixed Forms: Robin Smith’s Haibun “fragments with periods”
Robin Smith fragments with periods "Abstract-- 1637" by Jay Bonifield green polka dot hair. chem major. making LSD. taking LSD. in a tent. with flashlights. and exacto pens. carving the sea. [...]
CNF: A. Anupama’s Mixed Form Travel Essay “Like a Memory of Rain”
A. Anupama Like the memory of rain: a travel essay “Each of you, observe your mind yourself; see your original nature yourself… Because there is a teacher within one’s own mind that understands spontaneously.” [...]
March 2018
Haibun: Owen Bullock’s “Facts and Figures”
Facts and figures Owen Bullock "Timeless" by Robert Sherwood. still hot at five the leaves of newspapers turn down the road You call them ‘hurry cars’ – galumphing people and dogs circle us [...]
October 2017
Haibun: Paresh Tiwari’s “Fragments”
Fragments Paresh Tiwari One by one we throw a handful of sandalwood dust on the funeral pyre. There is nothing much to say and a damp stillness hangs heavy over the pale morning. In the end, [...]
Haibun: Paresh Tiwari’s “Rag Dolls”
Rag-dolls Paresh Tiwari All day long, we sit on the crumbling wall of the cemetery. Our feet, clad in mud-crusted Mary Janes, dangle inches above the wild grass. There is silence . . . a [...]