Author’s note: “I call this and similar digital poems ‘vaiku,’ or visual haiku, not strictly syllabic but Western haiku, to use Kerouac’s term, brief illuminations rendered in the haiku spirit. These works utilize public domain materials with hand-painted and/or hand-drawn elements.”

Frederick Highland’s novels Ghost Eater and Night Falls on Damascus are published by St. Martin’s Press. Recent creative work published or forthcoming has found a home at: allthesins(UK), Eclectica, Mystery Weekly, and Gargoyle magazines. Website: www.frederickhighland.net.

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