Kati Mohr
& Jerome Berglund
Hunting Moon
leafmouse
whistle softly
between the rows
can’t take this
a motion
cat paws
twitching
raven wings
in the dark
troop of skittish kids
run for it
scattering starlings
Sherry Grant
& Jerome Berglund
Knocks
tea light outlasts
taper
some lesson here
in the dark
only dancing
shadows left
mumbled
platitudes
freestyling
with memorized rhymes
skate ramp
new
faces
today
spitting out baby
teeth
never too old
for
boxing
and
unboxing
all
those bruises
Luke Brannon
& Jerome Berglund
Long Strange
Straight River
big leaf maples
all the cousins
squirreled away
before the Hope exit
stuff which builds up
on roof of microwave
hay fever
we continue past
her family albums
with the aunt
we never see
petro c. k.
&
Jerome Berglund
dry spell
now a curse
thoughts and prayers
infernal alchemy
transforms water into gold
science
is real
nuclear
safe –
the
Chernobility
half life
of a coal
tit
endless drought
butterflies
clatter to the ground
funeral pyres
their green alternatives
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Kati Mohr (she | they), born 1976, is a disabled intuitive artist, known online as pi & anne, who lives in Germany with her family and two rabbits. She likes to jump into old ponds to pull up lost cargo, mostly in the form of poems (but not exclusively!). Her art aims to track down the filters that humans apply, because how we see things says more about us than about the things themselves. Her heart beats for minimalist art, coffee, cuddles and pancakes. Kati can be found on Instagram @pi.and.anne.
Sherry Grant is a Taiwan-born NZ concert pianist, cellist, poet and translator. She is the author of ‘Bat Girl’ and the inventor of ‘nonaku’ poetry form. Sherry organised and performed 12 concerts in 2019, mostly with viola. Her youngest daughter, 7-year-old Zoe Grant, writes with her frequently. Sherry is the national/international outreach officer at NZPS since 2021. Apart from music, she also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
Raising a family in the Pacific Northwest, Luke keeps a hand writing in his spare time. Influenced by language poetry, his micropoetry focuses on capturing the moment and its interplay with the reader’s own experiences where meaning is then derived between the two. When not writing, Luke codes and illustrates line-art inspired by the American Southwest.
petro c. k. lives in the aggressive greenery of Seattle, but lets no moss grow on him. His creative life has included painting, graphic design, sound art, and DJ'ing, but only just this year dove headfirst into writing. His haiku and other short-form poems has already been widely published in dozens of eminent journals and he has completed his first collection of poetry.
Jerome Berglund graduated from USC’s film program and spent a picaresque decade in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, previously shared split sequences with Paul Brookes in Setu Bilingual Journal.
