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Julie Warther Schwerin

Julie Warther Schwerin, author of What Was Here (Folded Word Press) and Walking Away From the Sunset (Brooks Books), has served as Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America (www.hsa-haiku.org), as an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest (www.theheronsnest.com) and on the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team.  She was one of seventeen poets featured in A New Resonance 9 (Red Moon Press) and has co-edited, along with Jim Kacian, Echoes 2, and three books in the A New Resonance series, all of Red Moon Press. In addition, Schwerin was instrumental in establishing The Forest Haiku Walk at the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum in Millersburg, Ohio, the Seasons of Haiku Trail at The Holden Arboretum in Kirtland, Ohio and Words in Bloom: A Year of Haiku at the Chicago Botanic Garden to feature the work of other poets and bring further awareness to haiku.

For All Intents


and purposes

this lake
an ocean

like the mermaid in me

my tidepool becomes

part of the sea

again

under a
cradle moon

the waves lift me

set me back down

happy as a clam
in my one-room

life

How Quickly


winter’s length forgotten

at the first
hyacinth breeze

a twitter of hope

flutters
the underbrush

then out from the leaf litter

mourning cloaks

and a tulip bed
of resurrections

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