Cleopatra Hill
written by: Vicki Miko and Xenia Tran
@vickimiko
thoughts left behind
a parched calendar
swings on a nail
do words last?
does the sun?
in a place
where winds whistle
through abandoned stores
a bright sun feeds
the tree of heaven
Jerome’s Mini Mart
disenchanted
the flickering streetlights
no longer shine
the sun dims behind the mountain
it’s hard to see
who lived here …
this emptiness
spills from the town
where ghosts leave little trace
Vicki Miko is a retired television producer. She is an illustrator, photographer, and poet. This year (2024), she published a responsive tanka poetry book, Alley Craps: Boxcars, with her partner, Michael H. Lester. She received Honorable Mention for the Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Award, Modern Haiku, and her work has been published in a variety of poetry books. She was nominated for the McKnight Foundation Art Award for her gardening workbooks for the JD Rivers' Children's Garden.
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Xenia Tran is a poet, artist and photographer who lives and works in the Scottish Highlands with her husband and adopted animals. Originally from The Netherlands, she writes haiku, haibun, tanka, traditional and free-verse poems in Dutch and English. Her poems have been featured in haiku calendars, a haiku wheel, on television and in videos, anthologies, journals and magazines as well as in two full-length collections.
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- Cleopatra Hill - July 25, 2024
- Kindness Glitters - May 14, 2022
- New Year’s Blessing - January 20, 2022
