Recollections

Allyson Whipple’s Note: Thanks to C.X. Turner for serving as guest editor this week! Thanks also to our most recent tip jar contributors:

• Nancy Brady
• Ellen
• Kerstin Park

screen saver
holding on to
the memory of stars

Joanna Ashwell, UK
www.joannaashwell.com

fifty years later
I can still remember
the taste of hose water

Jennifer Gurney
Broomfield, Colorado

staycation
I see my village
through tourists’ eyes

Marjolein Rotsteeg
Hoenderloo, The Netherlands
https://mastodon.nl/@MarjoleinRotsteeg

Editor Bio: C.X. Turner (she/they) is the pen name for a social worker, manager and writer, living and working in the UK. They love experimenting with Japanese short-forms and collaborating with other poets. Co-Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, their debut solo collection, evergreen: a collection of haiku, senryū and tanka was recently published by Alba Publishing and they are also the author of anemones: a mini haiku chapbook (Yavanika Press), and co-author of Building Sandcastles: a book of short poems (Literary Revelations). Find them on X @lover__poetic. 

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