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Tom Painting

Repertoire

The stroke has left you speechless. Things are better off this way. You’d say so yourself.

north wind
the bone-dry rattle
of reeds

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About the Author

Tom Painting teaches junior high at the Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2000, his students have had winning haiku in the Nicholas Virgilio Memorial Haiku Contest. His own work has been widely published and anthologized.