The Ninth Trump
Christina Chin
& Jerome Berglund
building sandcastle
on the shore
Beware the hermit crab!!
queuing
for correct fitting
garment
They do,
out from
the outgrown shell
backing up into another
hence it’s lonely.
Court Date
Jerome Berglund
& Christina Jackson
a strand
of angel hair
hard on the wall
the last four years
audition
for survivor
up my alley
some things
keeping
the broken fork
and working with it
Turn Turn Turn
cedar r. london
& Jerome Berglund
bus stop
breathing out
past hacker
immaculate snow pages
season’s thin blanket
elemental neglect
violet crown revealed
reverent lyric
breaks from sermon
to pray for the firemen,
those burning
Tan-renga
Jerome Berglund
& Christina Chin
space fires
the beauty in the sadness
in the beauty
melancholic songs
hit the charts
Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, Kingfisher, and Presence. His first full-length collections of poetry were released by Setu, Meat For Tea, Mōtus Audāx press, and a mixed media chapbook showcasing his fine art photography is available now from Fevers of the Mind. Twitter: @BerglundJerome, IG: berglundjeromehaiku, Bluesky:@jeromeberglund.bsky.social
Christina Chin is a painter and haiku poet from Malaysia. She is a four-time recipient of top 100 in the mDAC Summit Contests, exhibited at the Palo Alto Art Center, California. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival 2020 Haiku Contest. 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama 2019 Photo-haiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.
Cedar R. London is a designer, poet, editor and gardener featured internationally and supported publications in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals to grassroots movements. Considering himself a curious multi-local, he is tethered to communities that bind regenerative principals, diversity, harmonic cadence and the power of story. Preferring a quiet life, when not writing in the countryside, Cedar spends his days enjoying weathered records, a collection of spoons and occasional early morning walks sipping earl grey tea. IG; https://www.instagram.com/gratiaideas?igsh=d24wbG8yZjk0c3Nt
Christine Jackson is a healer and creative with a diverse artistic background in a variety of forms which extends beyond writing and painting into ceramics, mixed media, and handicrafts. She is a renowned virtuoso at the subtle practice of crochet and teaches popular courses in its intricacies around the state of Minnesota.
Visual Art/poem: “so so so” a vispo collage by Robert Frede Kenter (c) 2025. Social media: Twitter: @frede_kenter, IG: icefloe22, r.f.k.vispocityshuffle, Bluesky: @rfredekenter.bsky.social
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