KYSO Flash
Knock-Your-Socks-Off Art and Literature
Issue 10: Fall 2018
Poems + Visual Art: 17 words [R]
8 words [R]
6 words [R]
22 words [R]

Four Haiga

by Debbie Strange
 

 

(in my hope chest): haiga by Debbie Strange
[Haiga: tanka + photograph]
Copyright © by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.


in my hope chest
a box of disillusions
the dust
of love letters
never meant for me

 

—Excerpted from the tanka prose “The Detritus of Dust,” which was published previously in Bright Stars Tanka Anthology (Keibooks; Volume 1, January 2014); appears here with author’s permission

 

 

(peeling paint): haiga by Debbie Strange
[Haiga: senryu + photograph]
Copyright © by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.


peeling paint
all the backstories
we don’t know

 

—Published previously in Prune Juice (Issue 23, November 2017); appears here with author’s permission

 

 

(snowswept): haiga by Debbie Strange
[Haiga: haiku + photograph]
Copyright © by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.


snowswept
my sharp edges soften
overnight

 

—Published previously in Blithe Spirit (Volume 25, Number 4, November 2015); appears here with author’s permission

 

 

(they called us): haiga by Debbie Strange
[Haiga: tanka + photograph]
Copyright © by Debbie Strange. All rights reserved.


they called us
to collect her things
not knowing
what to do with her teeth
we left her smile in the trash

 

—Published previously in Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine (2013) as an Honorable Mention in their 2013 World Tanka Contest; appears here with author’s permission


—All poems and images above are reproduced here from the artist’s online gallery with her permission.

Debbie Strange
Issue 10, Fall 2018

is an award-winning short-form poet, haiga artist, and photographer, whose work has been translated and widely published internationally. Debbie’s creative passions help her manage chronic illness, connecting her more closely to the world and to herself. She is the author of Warp and Weft: Tanka Threads (Keibooks, 2015) and the sequel, Three-Part Harmony: Tanka Verses (Keibooks, 2018), as well as the haiku chapbook, A Year Unfolding (Folded Word, 2017). Please visit her publication archive for further information and to view hundreds of haiga:

https://debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca

More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond

Coming Undone, haibun in KYSO Flash (Issue 6, Fall 2016)

The Poetry of Birds, slideshow reading on YouTube of more than a dozen of the artist’s haiga

The Tanka of Debbie Strange, an interview by Catherine MacDonald in Portage and Slain (30 April 2016)

Haiga of Debbie Strange at The Haiku Foundation (includes 39 award-winning images with text)


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