she walks
out of the shadow
he casts…
a pea tendril
coils upward

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Marilyn Gehant

Marilyn Gehant is a lover of Japanese arts, among them Sumi-e, ink painting. She studied Ikebana flower arranging under Ikka Nakashima and exhibited her arrangements at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Now a member of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society in San Jose, California, her free verse and haiku appear in journals and anthologies.

2 thoughts on “”

  1. My late friend Dan Bergin
    Always enjoyed
    That he thought
    He made up
    “she came out of the darkness like she was made of it”.

    He was a parole officer.

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