Lorraine A Padden

kill me with spites

Sent into air. Submission, surveillance, self-deprecation, self-objectification, and shared silence…on a stage beset with sylphs.

out of the garden sssnakesss

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Note: The title was taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 40.

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About the Author

Lorraine A Padden is a Touchstone Award–winning poet whose honors also include prizes from Tricycle Magazine, the Haiku Society of America, the Tokutomi International Haiku Competition, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Upwelling, her first collection of haiku and related short forms, was published by Red Moon Press in 2022. Find more at lorrainepadden.com.

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