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Five Haiku <\/p>\n <\/strong> Five Haiku Wind wipes out the soil. Tiger sheds its skin\u2014spotless Tiger Lilies fade. ♦ summer fruits abound two bunches of grapes protrude her sassy earrings ♦ pebbles in the pond scarring the face of water a broken mirror ♦ rain rain rain rain rain the earth feels nauseated mouthwatering fruits ♦ black clouds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24036,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/24036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>
\nWind wipes out the soil.
\nTiger sheds its skin\u2014spotless
\nTiger Lilies fade.
\n♦
\nsummer fruits abound
\ntwo bunches of grapes protrude
\nher sassy earrings
\n♦
\npebbles in the pond
\nscarring the face of water
\na broken mirror
\n♦
\nrain rain rain rain rain
\nthe earth feels nauseated
\nmouthwatering fruits
\n♦
\nblack clouds whimpering
\nfoul smell of pigs in the mud
\ntear gas in the eyes<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAli Znaidi<\/strong> lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He graduated with a BA in Anglo-American Studies in 2002. He teaches English at Tunisian public secondary schools. His work has appeared in The Bamboo Forest<\/em>, The Camel Saloon<\/em>, phantom kangaroo<\/em>, and in BoySlut<\/em>. He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network\u2014http:\/\/sixsentences.ning.com\/profile\/AliZnaidi<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"