Book of the Week: The Cutter – A Book of Haiku by Joann Grisetti

In Keibooks, we learn that Joann grew up in Sasebo, Japan and currently lives in Florida with her husband and two sons. Her poetry has appeared in Haiku Magazine, Daily Love, Lynx, Poetry Quarterly and other magazines. In addition, she has published short stories in the Inwood Indiana Press.

seeping red her white wrists a cracked soul

across her belly white scars in parallel

sanity slips behind the fog of relationship

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