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First published in Bacopa Literary Review 2019, pages 66–67. This sequence also received first prize for haiku ($300) in the Bacopa Literary Review 2019 prizes, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The same issue also included my sequences “Still I Go” and “Haiku Lessons.” See also Mary Bast’s Bacopa Literary Review blog post on 13 October 2019 about this sequence. See also “Three Haiku Sequences,” with my commentary on this sequence that also appeared as a guest posting on 15 January 2020 on the Bacopa Literary Review Editors’ Blog. This sequence also appeared in This Morning's Tides: Commencement Bay Haiku 10-Year Anniversary Anthology (Tacoma, Washington: Commencement Bay Haiku, 2022), pages 79–80. Sequence originally written in late December of 2017. +
year of the rat—
three African violets
by the mended violin
year of the ox—
peach blossoms
left in the letterbox
year of the tiger—
the glow of cineraria
in misty moonlight
year of the rabbit—
the unfinished painting
of purple jasmine
year of the dragon—
a bleeding heart
fallen to the mantel
year of the snake—
yellow orchids
for the election winner
year of the horse—
a pair of calla lilies
nodding in a vase
year of the goat—
a red carnation
in the journalist’s lapel
year of the monkey—
the encyclopedia opens
to chrysanthemums
year of the rooster—
talking so much in the garden
she misses my gladiolas
year of the dog—
rose bushes hiding
a garden gnome
year of the pig—
the abundance
of hydrangeas
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