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Author: 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.
highway markers how quickly the future blurs into the past
Posted on 21 February 201310 February 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.17 Comments on
cold winter rain the swollen creek also rushing home
Posted on 6 March 20131 March 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.19 Comments on
river current I practice letting go
Posted on 19 July 20133 July 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.27 Comments on
cowlick some part of me still wild
Posted on 17 September 201311 September 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.215 Comments on
campaign sign the dog registers his opinion
Posted on 20 November 201316 November 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.318 Comments on
windswept dunes the difference between wants and needs
Posted on 4 December 201318 November 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.36 Comments on
hanging in my closet the person I used to be
Posted on 1 January 201419 December 2013Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 13.38 Comments on
summer bonfire the Christmas tree lights up one last time     (originally appeared in Prune Juice, Issue 11, November 2013)
Posted on 11 July 201425 June 2014Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 14.18 Comments on
the time we are given? sparks rise through darkness to join the stars
Posted on 8 December 201417 November 2014Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 14.25 Comments on
end of yoga one of the corpses lightly snoring       (Previously appeared in Yoga-ku, Ed. Terri French, 2014)  
Posted on 26 June 201718 June 2017Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 17.18 Comments on
home from errands? a hero’s welcome from the dog         (Originally appeared in Modern Haiku 44:1, Winter/Spring 2013)
Posted on 4 July 201724 June 2017Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 17.14 Comments on
eye exam in the dark he compliments my retinas       (The Heron’s Nest, XVI:4, December 2014)
Posted on 16 April 20187 April 2018Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 18.17 Comments on
the crunch of frost bare branches of the oak alive with stars      
Posted on 1 May 20181 May 2018Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 18.18 Comments on
water and stone how we shape each other
Posted on 15 December 201813 December 2018Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 18.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
daffodil shoots parts of us emerge from hibernation           (Golden Haiku Competition, 2018, Golden Triangle BID, Washington, D.C.)
Posted on 1 February 20191 February 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 18.24 Comments on
mouth of the river an ever-changing story told to the sea (haiga)
Posted on 26 April 201923 April 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga13 Comments on
redwood time . . . the steady journey from earth to sky (haiga)
Posted on 19 July 201912 April 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.1Tags haiga10 Comments on
mountain meadow ten thousand ways to open to grace (haiga)
Posted on 25 December 201916 October 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.2Tags haiga9 Comments on
plain brown bulb the mystery of becoming (haiga)
Posted on 17 January 202020 October 2019Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 19.2Tags haiga8 Comments on
beach umbrella all day the orbit of its shadow (haiga)
Posted on 17 July 20202 October 2020Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 20.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
fox tracks … who was I before I was tamed? (haiga)
Posted on 23 October 20207 November 2020Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 20.2Tags haiga2 Comments on
bright green needles on the fire-scarred redwood what we?ve each survived (haiga)
Posted on 15 October 202115 October 2021Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga4 Comments on
deep river the places that call us home (haiga)
Posted on 22 December 202219 November 2022Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 22.2Tags haiga3 Comments on
to love this body just as it is twisted shore pines (haiga)
Posted on 21 July 202319 July 2023Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 23.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
sun-striped path the forest’s outbreath fills our lungs (haiga)
Posted on 21 June 20249 April 2024Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 24.1Tags haiga3 Comments on
the shape of a life one sparkling wave returns to the sea (haiga)
Posted on 25 April 202522 April 2025Author Annette MakinoCategories Issue 25.1Tags haiga6 Comments on
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