watercolor painting with abstract green shapes suggesting a forest with one black stump. pine needles above and ferns below, and the text of the haiku superimposed

bright green needles
on the fire-scarred redwood —
what we’ve each survived

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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.

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