Michele Root-Bernstein

How Charlotte Yearns to Sear Her Soul

Only too well do I know the nature of my plight. To teach the dull their letters, to consort with the insipid when the mind’s eye wanders far, this is madness. To retreat to my ink-stained desk at whatever hour, there to plumb my infernal dreams, this, this is genius. I have a singular notion to make a living from it, to journey through all my being to a fiction of my true self: an idolator, a discord, an orphaned jane shut up in a room of ghosts.

swirling mist . . .
out of the midnight owl
the moon’s phantasm

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About the Author

Michele Root-Bernstein devotes herself to haiku, haibun and haiga. She is currently book editor of Modern Haiku and facilitator of Evergreen Haiku in mid-Michigan.