Shards, 45 Haiku & Other Short Poems

By D. Arthur Watson

Shards is a collection of 45 poems. Most are Haiku, a Japanese form of poem consisting of three lines that contain 5, 7, and 5 syllables. The remaining poems do not follow this form.

• Language: English
• Publisher: D. Arthur Watson
• Release date: May 28, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476319360

D. Arthur Watson

D. Arthur Watson, username Xunez on Twitter, was born in Chicago and grew up in New Jersey. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with a BA in English Literature. His writing career began as a copywriter for Prentice-Hall Publishers in New Jersey. From there, he moved on to work as a copywriter in the Book Club Division of Doubleday & Company in Garden City, New York, where he later became Editor of the Science Fiction Book Club. He currently lives in Alabama. In 2010, Twitter reignited his interest in writing. The discipline of the 140-character limit is a marvelous teacher. His future writing interests include novels, flash fiction and poetry.

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