Karin Hedetniemi

Creative Nonfiction • Photography • Poetry • Haiku Themes: Quiet • Nature • Sea • Travel Memoir • Being Human • Spirit • Dreams • Metaphysics • Grief • Living Forward After Loss • Sense of Wonder

Victoria, Canada

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Selected work (16 publications)

Welter Journal, 2023

Tropospheric"The sun shimmering down, a paradise. Now, a jagged ridgeline in the distance — the first glimpse of snowy peaks. A meandering river below in the plains. What is said of such slow rivers? They are old."

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One Side of This World"We had one private session together before she hired me for a side hustle...I was a capable Jill-of-all-trades. Irene was a clairvoyant medium."

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Thin Air Magazine, 2023

Shadow of a Tall Saguaro"I had to acknowledge there was life here — a rich plant and animal biodiversity. And within this place, a stillness, a calm peace. But I didn't come here to appreciate the desert. I came to seek solace, for an undetermined length of time..."

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Bacopa Literary Review, 2022

Santorini Blue"In one of the photos, you are reading a book on the terrace. I can't see the cover. You are smiling. There's nothing on the table — no cup of coffee, no glass of wine. It must be midday...I have no recollection of this."

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