cow bells, rabbits, & dandelions

Tan-Renga Poetry by Christina Chin & Jerome Berglund

cow bells –
here and there
thistles

a song to drive
the wolves away

rabbits
nibble buttercups
bamboo fence

test everything
hold to what is good

dandelions
cling to the rock cliff –
shadows of passing gulls

play to an
empty house

Jerome Berglund has many haiku, senryu and tanka exhibited and forthcoming online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bottle Rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collection of poetry Bathtub Poems was just released by Setu Press.


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 Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, multilingual journals, and anthologies, including Japan's prestigious monthly Haikukai Magazine.