About Annette Makino
Annette Makino is a poet and artist who writes haiku and senryu and illustrates her poems with Japanese ink paintings. Her pieces, comprising a few words and brushstrokes, convey a quiet Zen perspective and gentle sense of humor. There is a gallery of her work at www.makinostudios.com.
Website: http://www.makinostudios.com
By Annette Makino:
- to love this body . . .
- deep river . . .
- bright green needleson the fire-scarred redwoodwha . . .
- fox tracks … who was I before I was tamed? . . .
- beach umbrellaall day the orbitof its shadow . . .
- plain brown bulb . . .
- mountain meadow . . .
- redwood time . . .the steady journeyfrom earth to . . .
- mouth of the riveran ever-changing storytold to th . . .
- daffodil shoots . . .
- water and stone . . .
- the crunch of frost . . .
- eye exam . . .
- home from errands? . . .
- end of yoga . . .
- the time we are given? . . .
- summer bonfire . . .
- hanging in my closet the person I used to be . . .
- windswept dunes . . .
- campaign sign . . .
- cowlick . . .
- river current I practice letting go . . .
- cold winter rain . . .
- highway markers . . .