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Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Miho Kinnas is a writer, poet and translator. Her poems are collected in various anthologies including Best American Poetry 2023, and The Coast Lines (CLASS publishing, 2025). She teaches Poems of All Sizes: Japanese Poetic Forms at Writers.com and New York Writers Workshop. She contributes to World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma) and The American Book Review (University of Nebraska Press.)
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World Literature Today
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SC Arts Commission Arts Directory
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(The poem willl appear via QR Code at this sculpture site.)
BIRD
(After Georges Braque)
Before the birds
I was thinking about black holes
or a large cast iron skillet.
I needed an oversized
midnight blue egg
for the mural in your Louvre
to give birth to wilder, freer me.
I pulled the horizon closer
to catch a seabird.
The boats gave a wince.
The crooked current lifted
a Gannet with a broken neck.
I let the horizon go.
Winter Solstice crouches
on the starboard side.
And you, you left December.
Miho Kinnas