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Six tanka sequences that explore spaces of (dis)connectedness: family, partnership, friendship, the self. "What keeps attracting me, what keeps haunting me, is that we humans exist in fields of tension, we are simultaneously connected and disconnected, for better or for worse. I can only continue to observe and learn, from my perspective, which is that of a woman, a human in this complex world. We carry misconceptions and statues and wish they would dissolve into dust. We carry ourselves, the ones before us, the future and the ideas of what it means to be a human as we simply try to live in the here and now - fallible and wondrous." - Kati Mohr

Kati Mohr, born in 1976, known online as pi & anne, shares a lot of her poetry and art on Instagram and her blog. She lives in Nuremberg, Germany with her family and two rabbits. Her aim is to explore the filters we humans use, because how we see things often says more about us than about the things themselves. She is still busy creating a collage of her own life that makes sense to her. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals, e.g. Kingfisher Journal, The Haibun Journal, The Other Bunny, Whiptail Journal, The Pan Haiku Review, Prune Juice, Wales Haiku Journal, MacQueen's Quinterly. She came second in the Marlene Mountain Memorial Contest 2023, organised by FemkuMag. In 2024, her haibun All These Things was honoured with a Touchstone Award by The Haiku Foundation, and she released her first chapbook of tanka: something with feathers.