after pink

poetry and other writings by Tiffany Elise (formerly Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

a woodpecker

pecking pecking

each day

is a constant battle

to stay sober

*Published in Issue #22 of Moonbathing

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Tiffany: Dayton, Ohio, United States; Tiffany Elise (formerly Tiffany Shaw-Diaz) is a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and two-time Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. She was shortlisted for The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award for Individual Poem in 2020 and won in 2021. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and more than 100 other publications. Her chapbooks include: says the rose (Yavanika Press 2019), filth (Proletaria 2020), and tyranny of the familiar (Yavanika Press 2020). She created and debuted the poetic form, Socratic verse, in 2020 in Human/Kind Journal. Her work has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese. For business inquiries, please email: shawdiaz@gmail.com

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