Haiku Poetry Awards Finalist - Cassandra Bousquet

Cassandra Bousquet hails from Brisbane, California. She enjoys period dramas and rambling the woods and mountains. Her work is featured in the collaborative poem, "Breathe," which appeared in Nature & Culture 2021 Festival Book (Copenhagen: Red Press Kulturhuset Islands Brygge & Københavns Kommune, 2021). Her poem, “Dear Human at the Edge of Time” appears in the 2023 anthology of the same title, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and Jeremy S. Hoffman. In April 2023, she held the position of Writer in Residence at Bristol, Rhode Island's historic mansion and museum, Linden Place. Ms. Bousquet is the recent recipient of the Poetry Lighthouse prize for her poem "On the freeway," which will appear along with four more of her poems in the first annual Poetry Lighthouse anthology. Protecting the natural world is of the utmost importance to her.

Moving on by Cassandra Bousquet

Memories raked

like dry leaves–

A stump is a beginning.