cloud cover . . .
plum blossoms reach out
to the sky

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Margaret Dornaus

Margaret Dornaus holds an M.F.A. in literary translation from the University of Arkansas, where she received the Lily Peters Poetry Translation Award as well as being twice nominated for an Associated Writing Program essay-writing award. Winner of the Tanka Society of America?s 2011 International Tanka Contest, her tanka, haiku and haibun have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: A Hundred Gourds; Atlas Poetica; Modern Haiku; Moonbathing; red lights; Ribbons; and others. Her first book of poems, Prayer for the Dead: Collected Haibun & Tanka Prose, received a 2017 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America.

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  4. .

    cloud cover . . .
    plum blossoms reach out
    to the sky

    —MARGARET DORNAUS

    Nothing more beautiful than plum (or cherry) blossom against a stark blue and white sky!

    Thank you!

    ***

    this sorrowing heart fading into plum

    Alan Summers
    Publication Credits: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

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