cow bells, rabbits, & dandelions
Tan-Renga Poetry by Christina Chin & Jerome Berglund
cow bells –
here and there
thistles
a song to drive
the wolves away
rabbits
nibble buttercups
bamboo fence
test everything
hold to what is good
dandelions
cling to the rock cliff –
shadows of passing gulls
play to an
empty house
Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry Bathtub Poems was just released by Setu Press.
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.