A Time Lapse of a Summer Day

Allyson Whipple

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A Time Lapse of a Summer Day
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Haiku by Roberta Beach Jacobson, Joanna Ashwell, Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, Paula Sears, and Katherine E Winnick

sneaking in way too early morning sun

Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA

over-easy
the softening rise
of dawn

Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom

silent afternoon
the weight of a palm
on the door knob

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

twilight . . .
periwinkles cling
to the swaying cordgrass

Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

washing up one soap bubble holding the moon

Katherine E Winnick
Brighton, United Kingdom

Editor Bio: Kathryn P. Haydon is a Midwestern poet who is grateful that she was led to haiku by favorite longer-form poets such as William Carlos Williams and Jane Hirshfield. She went from publishing fairly short poems in her collection Unsalted Blue Sunrise: Poems of Lake Michigan to writing one-breath haiku. Kathryn is the poet-in-residence at Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods in Illinois. Her seventh book, A Love Letter to Deep Souls, was released and is available on her Deep Soul Strengths Substack.

https://deepsoulstrengths.substack.com

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