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Shane Coppage
& Jerome Berglund

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underpass 
overhead
old orange truck 

the sandbags
support a sign 

Sara Plain
& Jerome Berglund

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icy spikes
in the coyote’s fur
the growl of hunger

getting by on fumes
rag and gasoline

Kimberly Kuchar
& Jerome Berglund

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perfume garden
the neighbour’s night 
fragrant jasmine 

vitamin deficiency 
alfeñique moon

Christina Chin 
& Jerome Berglund

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no one else
is going to sweep up
the styrofoam

a cold finger sticks out
of his torn mitten

Jerome Berglund
& Kimberly Kuchar

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cake topper 
on bad karma
like a divan

hands full 
tipping over

Jerome Berglund 
& Christina Chin

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solitary fly
crossing the Pacific…
the globe spins

threatening to go off-axis
degrees of latitude

Kimberly Kuchar
& Jerome Berglund

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fake beard 
on heavy makeup
Peking opera

rust on the 
guillotine 

Christina Chin 
& Jerome Berglund

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white miso

refractory 
period 
tea taxes 

Shane Coppage
& Jerome Berglund

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Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many poems he’s written in a variety of forms including haiku, haiga and haibun have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher, and Presence. 

Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.

Shane Coppage is a poet and artist. His poetry has been published in Prune Juice, Whiptail, Humana Obscura, dadakuku, Trash Panda, The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, The Wee Sparrow Press, and Cold Moon Journal, among others. Coppage lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his growing family. 

Kimberly Kuchar often writes haiku and senryu while her pet cockatiel is sitting on her shoulder. She lives near Austin with her husband (and their son when he’s not at college). Her work has appeared in Frogpond, Akitsu Quarterly, Cold Moon Journal, tsuri-dōrō, Wales Haiku Journal, Prune Juice Journal, Poetry Pea Journal, and other publications and has been nominated for the Touchstone Award and the Pushcart Prize. Kimberly also pens sequences, linked-verse poetry, haibun, and a bit of prose. Photography is another hobby.