1776 and All That
Haiku by Janet Ruth, Jahnavi Gogoi, Eavonka Ettinger, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Rowan Beckett Minor, and Caroline Wermuth
baseball stats
counting nighthawks
among stadium lights
Janet Ruth
Corrales, New Mexico, USA
crossing borders
my honeysuckle flowers
in the neighbor’s yard
Jahnavi Gogoi
Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Memorial Day
I am now the last
of our name
Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, California, USA
drive-in movie
the full moon watching
a double feature
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, Ohio, USA
rising heat
at the gas station
new bullet-proof glass
Rowan Beckett Minor
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
rolling thunder
a Harley pulls out
of the parking lot
Caroline Wermuth
State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Editor Bio: Adele Evershed is a Welsh writer who swapped the Valleys for the American East Coast. A Pushcart Prize–nominated poet and Touchstone Award winner for an individual poem, she co-edits Thin Skin Journal. She is the author of the haiku collection Pressed Between Palms (Nun Prophet Press), with two further collections forthcoming: They F#% You Up Your Mom and Dad (Cuttlefish Books) and Red Threads and Silver Linings (Prolific Pulse Press). Her work has appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Poetry Wales, and elsewhere.
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