biting cold—
moonlight on the nail heads
of the old fence
Alaska poet and photographer Cindy Zackowitz was born in 1965 in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her untimely death in 2012 deeply saddened all who knew her. She was a life-long Alaskan, and graduated from the University of Alaska with a BA in Journalism/Photography. Cindy was a long-time member of the Haiku Society of America, serving three terms as Regional Coordinator for the Alaska Region and co-founding the Alaska Haiku Society. She was one of the early members of the Shiki Internet Haiku Salon. Her haiku appeared in leading haiku journals and many received special honors. A highly-skilled photographer, her photographs, too, won several awards. Her keen perceptions of the Alaska landscape are clearly captured in words as focused as her camera.