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Bali Haiku

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January 7, 2022
Photograph of a rice field in Bali, there is a sunrise and the image is framed by sugarcane
Bali Rice Field, James Penha, 2021

A native New Yorker, James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for…

Bali Haiku first appeared in Bear Creek Haiku in November 2021 (page 31).

Birds feasting in rice fields
all afternoon; scarecrow sunset
makes them fly.
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A native New Yorker, James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse News, an online journal of current-events poetry.

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