beached seaweed
all the tangles
of this life

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Jennifer Hambrick

A four-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Jennifer Hambrick won the 2020 Sheila-Na-Gig Pres Poetry Prize, won First Place in the 2018 Haiku Society of America's Haibun Award Competition, won First Place in the 2021 Martin Lucas Haiku Competition, and authored the collections In the High Weeds, winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award from Haiku Canada; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). She has won numerous other awards for her work, which has been published in The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, POEM, the Red Moon Press haiku and contemporary haibun anthologies, Modern Haiku Press’ Haiku 20xx anthologies of “Notable Ku,” Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Mayfly, Frogpond, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in dozens of other journals and invited anthologies worldwide. A classical musician and public radio broadcaster and multimedia producer, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus.

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  2. .

    beached seaweed
    all the tangles
    of this life

    —JENNIFER HAMBRICK

    It's certainly an interesting opening line, as many of us only witness seaweed as if it is dumped at the beach, often our childhood Summer seaside family holidays. 'Beached' in itself might suggest marooned. As a lover of seaweed for breakfast, be it a Welsh one or a Japanese snack, the entity is home.

    But now I'm of Agatha Christie mysteries, and of course:

    "O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
    Sir Walter Scott (Marmion 1808)

    ***

    beachcombing…
    a periwinkle rotates
    deeper into itself

    Alan Summers
    3Lights: Promenade: haiku beside the seaside (2008) curator: Liam Wilkinson

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