Haiku Poetry Awards Finalist - Corey Stano

Corey Stano is a poet and artist living on the Space Coast of Florida. Their writing focuses nature, impermanence, and life as part of the LGBTQ+ community in Florida. Their work has previously appeared in Impostor: A Poetry Journal and the Vita & the Woolf Literary and Arts Journal. Their haiku "Chiaroscuro" is a love letter to thunderstorms and reflects the human ability to find beauty in fearful things.

Chiaroscuro by Corey Stano

electric white slash

tenebrous black blue grey swathes

brushstrokes of a storm