kakashi
by Jennifer Hambrick
this shack made of nothing. slats of sugi sag off their nails on shallow soil. rust streaks rain-gray grain. moonlight threads through cracks, the wood’s flesh scorched by sun, cleft by ice, quivering with phantom pains from long-remembered roots.
the silence has no fear of shadows.
across the rice field, last year’s scarecrow, plaid flannel rags flapping on outstretched arms, wooden spine stabbed into the mud, decaying.
growth rings
memory of a future
self
Six-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee Jennifer Hambrick is the author of the poetry collections In the High Weeds (NFSPS Press) winner of the Stevens Award; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award; and Unscathed. Hambrick’s poems appear in Rattle, The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, POEM, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, NOON: journal of the short poem, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Kingfisher, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in numerous invited anthologies. Hambrick was featured by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry and has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Prize, First Prize in the Haiku Society of America's Haibun Award Competition, First Prize in the Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (U.K.), and many others. A classical musician, public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and cultural journalist, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus, Ohio. jenniferhambrick.com.
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