Friday, May 12, 2023: Keiko Amano's two senryu and art photos

                                             cherry blossoms

shoes are laughing

in the entrance

fusuma doors

make my eyes cross

granddaughters' skill

© 2023 Keiko Amano

Keiko Amano was born and reared in Yokohama, Japan. She writes both in English and Japanese. Her first book, “Ocha Teacher” was published in 2015, and her short stories were published, from most recently, in the East Jasmine Review of Southern California, the Bicycle Review of San Francisco, Contemporary Literary Horizon of Bucharest, Romania, and Eye-Ai Magazine of Tokyo. She was an infrastructure systems programmer for large business computers for many years.

Women's History Month: Keiko Amano's Two Senryu and Photographs

side by side

eyes never meet

fight stopper

a beauty

among other beauties

called pretty

poems and photos (c) 2019 Keiko Amano 
Keiko Amano was born and reared in Yokohama, Japan. She writes both in English and Japanese. Her first book, Ocha Teacher, was published in 2015.  Some of her short stories and essays have appeared in magazines. In order of publication, most recent first, they have appeared in Poeticdiversity (US), the East Jasmine Review (US), the Bicycle Review (US), Contemporary Literary Horizon (Romania), and Eye-Ai (Japan). She was an infrastructure systems programmer for Farmers Insurance Group in Los Angeles for thirteen years and worked mainly at the data centers of various corporations in Japan and the U.S. She took many creative writing classes at UCLA Extension and attended Writers workshops. This is her second book.