art of cursive
the barn swallows inking
a washi sky

 

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Marianne Paul

Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and writer. Her book, Body Weight, A Collection of Haiku and Art, placed first in the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Award for chapbooks. Marianne is also honoured to have won the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Festival, and Sonic Boom’s VISPO Contest for visual poems. Her latest book is the drift from here to where, a collection of haiga. Marianne’s happy obsessions include book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. She has started a small press, paper heron books, that features one of a kind hand-crafted chapbooks.

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    1. Just look up onto the internet what a barn swallow looks like, and then against the background of washi and be prepared to be blown away! On certain Summer days (in Canada, USA, Northern Europe etc…) be prepared to be blown away, and fortunately the Barn Swallow is also seen as a bird of Spring! Southern Hemisphere in the time of Winter is also a good time, so set your sails across Marianne's washi sky and catch them all year, if you can!

      Alan

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  4. Marianne, such a grand earthly feeling, as I see that message on a paper sky.
    __ Too… today's parallel: 'Tis not odd that >ink and link< rhyme… their their meaning can seem the same. _m

    cursive links
    through this feathers nib
    paper sky

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  6. Nice — here's a haiku I wrote this summer while visiting Croatia and soon to be published in
    Presence:
    belfry bells
    the swallows compose
    a perfect clef

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