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Milky Way in Africa
Posted on July 2, 2017October 22, 2017 by joannathenomad

Spilt Milky Way

The night’s light-speckled
And freckled with ivory
On indigo silk.

© Joanna Rubery 2017

CategoriesPoetry Tags#haiku, #japan, #poetry

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Joanna Rubery worked for Oxford Dictionaries on and off for over fifteen years, and now writes and edits children’s literature. She has also spent considerable time as a travelling writer and musician while teaching English around the world. So far she’s lived and worked in Belgium, Cambodia, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Germany, Japan, India, and Spain. She’s also worked voluntarily in Peru, and spent a lot of time in Ireland.

Joanna’s travel writing and articles on language have been published by Oxford University Press, Wanderlust, and the Christchurch Press. She has also won and been placed in several Very Short Fiction competitions, and her short stories have been published in Narrative magazine and the Grindstone Literary Anthology.

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