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    Paid in Salt
    Paid in Salt
    Paid in Salt
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    Paid in Salt

    By Christine Svensson

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    Once in a blue moon
    I want to make a mistake
    that just might be you

    Once in a blue moon
    I wonder if you are a
    mistake worth making

    Once in a blue moon
    I wish mistakes could be made,
    mistakes shaped like you

    There is something about the precise magic of compressing impossible thoughts, memories, or feelings into seventeen syllables that inspires poets like Christine Svensson.

    In a debut collection of over one hundred and fifty haiku poems, Svensson distills bits of the human experience into seventeen syllables while sharing insight into her life's journey. Within diverse and creative writings, she reflects on a gladiator lost in dreams, the bleak rhyme game after a long week, a poisoner's prayer, the answers to unasked questions, the mirrors that bend the angles of a dark shape into a shadow, and much more.

    Paid in Salt is a volume of haiku poetry that vividly explores one woman's life path, love, heartache, and the human experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchway Publishing
    Release dateJun 9, 2022
    ISBN9781665723398
    Paid in Salt
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    Christine Svensson

    Christine Svensson is a Swedish-American gypsy, living in Phoenix. When she isn’t reading or writing poetry, she is suffering the desert sun. Paid in Salt is her debut collection of haiku.

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      Paid in Salt - Christine Svensson

      PAID IN SALT

      CHRISTINE SVENSSON

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      Copyright © 2022 Christine Svensson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-6657-2338-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6657-2339-8 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2022908453

      Archway Publishing rev. date: 06/07/2022

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