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Author: Charles Easter

Charles Easter is a musician, poet, and massage therapist living in central New Jersey. He's won the Frogpond Museum of Haiku Literature Award twice. His interests include Japanese spirituality and culture.
grandma’s well the water tasted like iron and cold— that darkness from which I’m made
Posted on 26 July 201124 June 2011Author Charles EasterCategories Issue 11.2Tags memory, tanka14 Comments on

Carnival Elephant

I lifted a single peanut up to the great animal. … (haibun continues)
Posted on 19 August 20112 August 2011Author Charles EasterCategories Issue 11.2Tags carnival, circus, elephants, haibun, peanuts, summer13 Comments on Carnival Elephant

September 11

Living in New Jersey, it was noon before I turned on the TV and heard that the planes had hit the towers. My first thought was of my ex-girlfriend, who was still a friend.
Posted on 11 September 201125 August 2011Author Charles EasterCategories Issue 11.2Tags haibun, New York, september, september 11, terrorism7 Comments on September 11
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