1.
bone moon    
the wandering stillness    
of his winter

     2.
furrows
from the frets
winter shadows

                               3.
black moon nothing but the truth
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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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