Field Notes

Haiku by Bonnie J. Scherer, Lori Kiefer, Vandana Parashar, Ann Sullivan, and Sandra Simpson

milk cows grazing the heat

Bonnie J. Scherer
Palmer, Alaska, USA

coach window—
small hands waving
at the sheep

Lori Kiefer
London, United Kingdom

seasonal rain
the farmer’s wife
expecting

Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, Haryana, India

farmhouse curtains
waving in the breeze
a cow’s pink tongue

Ann Sullivan
Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

amid ripening wheat
a faint whispering …
mesopotamia

Sandra Simpson
Tauranga, New Zealand

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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