pop-up snowstorm
the swirl of Van Gogh’s
starry nights

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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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    pop-up snowstorm
    the swirl of Van Gogh’s
    starry nights

    —MARIANNE PAUL

    I've certainly written a lot of haiku and haibun around Vincent van Gogh, but never combined snow and that wonderful painting I had the privilege to see up close in Amsterdam and London.

    I love the idea, and have experienced, pop-up snowstorms! And I've experienced the swirls of Van Gogh's brushstrokes when I couldn't believe it, but I was able to be a couple of millimetres away from his wheatfields painting, and it had no glass front. The brushstrokes continue to be mesmerising the closer you get to them.

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    blue note—
    the snow falls
    out of itself

    Alan Summers
    Nick Virgilio Writers House Poetry: Volume 1: haiku, senryu, and tanka
    ed. Henry Brann (upright remington press July 2019)

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