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      July 13, 2013Basho After CinderellaDeborah P. Kolodji

      (i)

      a glass slipper
      in the middle of the road
      spring rain

      (ii)

      thistles in bloom
      village gossip
      after the ball

      (iii)

      pumpkin vine
      a mouse remembers
      how to neigh

      (iv)

      fairy dust snow
      perfectly-sized boots
      for her bare feet

      from #38 - Winter 2012

      Deborah P. Kolodji

      “At some point in my poetry career, I decided my poems were too wordy and discovered haiku. Writing haiku soon became a way of life, and I have learned to appreciate small moments of my day and write them into snapshot poems. Because I also enjoy speculative literature, it’s fun to imagine the landscape around an imaginary or literary event, such as the evening of Cinderella’s ball, or the moment Arthur discovers the Sword in the Stone, and wondering what Basho, the seventeenth century haiku master, would write if he was there to see it.”