i am underwater
with a current pulling me into its grip

but

i think we both know
there is no water

and

that this really is
a thinly veiled metaphor

but

i am still underwater
with a current pulling me into its grip

Tiffany Shaw-Diaz is a Pushcart Prize and Dwarf Stars Award nominee who also works as a professional visual artist. Her poetry has been featured in Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Bones, NHK World Haiku Masters, The Mainichi, and dozens of other publications. Her first chapbook, says the rose, was published by Yavanika Press in 2019, and her second chapbook, filth, was published by Proleteria in 2020.