Drifting Along the Shore

Haiku by Marietta McGregor, Anne Fox, Belinda Behne, Lisa Billa, and Paula Sears

beach cottage
our everydays
drifting

Marietta McGregor
Canberra, Australia

rocking rowboat
the slow pulse
of jellyfish

Anne Fox
Broomes Island, Maryland, USA

sand dollars
carrying the sun
in our pockets

Belinda Behne
Clinton, Connecticut, USA

beach traffic seagulls crisscrossing the tideline

Lisa Billa
San Jose, California, USA

all day sun . . .
hauling blue skies
in her beach pail

Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

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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