Ludmila Balabanova

Life with a Diagnosis

It is better that she will go before the others. She will not see how dry leaves cover the terrace where they dance. Among the crowd of guests, he will hug her goodbye as if he would press a rose to his bare chest. But do a few drops of blood matter…

tightrope walk    balancing on a sunbeam

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About the Author

Ludmila Balabanova is a computer engineer and has a Ph.D. in literature. Her haiku and haibun have won international awards, including both a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award and an HSA Merit Book Award for her haibun collection Sunflower Field (Zhanet, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2019). She recently edited Tuning Up the Violins: Haiku Anthology (Scribens Publishing, 2022). She lives in Sofia, Bulgaria.