Joanna Ashwell

Taking Sides

Are you milk first or tea first?  Cats or dogs?  If you were a colour, what would it be?  Party or log fire?  Books or noise?  A songbird or a drumbeat?  A hand or a push?  Diamond or glass?  Do you ever count the stars?   Do you wonder about clouds?  What’s in there? Right or wrong.  Truth or dare.  Love or love.  Some questions push too far.

distant stranger
loosening the light
from sky

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About the Author

Joanna Ashwell is a writer in North-East England. Her books include Between Moonlight (haiku, Hub Editions, 2006), Every Star (tanka, 2023, Kindle DIrect Publishing), and two cherita collections, River Lanterns and Moonset Song (both available through Amazon). She has won The British Haiku Society Award, among other honors, and is on the selection team for the Canadian tanka journal Gusts.

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