A Senryu by Julie Bloss Kelsey

 

finally pain-free . . .
her first time
in dragon form

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Julie Bloss Kelsey is the author of three poetry collections (mainly haiku and tanka) and writes a column for new haiku poets at The Haiku Foundation. One of her treasured memories is of encountering an angel when she was very young. She believes we have to store up the smallest of good in the world (butterflies, haiku, children's laughter) to offset the heaping (and easier to see) dumps of bad. Julie is fond of semicolons, parentheses, exclamation points, and the Oxford comma.