Chris Bays lives on the outskirts of an Audubon-sanctioned reserve in Ohio. His poems have appeared in Boston Literary Magazine,
Contemporary Haibun Online, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Shot Glass Journal and other journals
here and abroad. Some years back, Silenced Press nominated him for Best New Poets.
POW
she
is
rising
from herself
ashen and alone
a whisper, a face in dark flames
freed from hands, wicked boys, a Barbie in a pyre