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Haiku by Vandana Parashar, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Sari Grandstaff, Millicent Bee, and C. Jean Downer
flying kites
falling kites
the same wind
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, Haryana, India
tagging Monarchs you’re it
Roberta Beach Jacobson
Indianola, Iowa, USA
beach volleyball
the tide turns
halfway through the match
Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, New York, USA
poolside hush
the sudden swan
in her dive
Millicent Bee
Richmond, Virginia, USA
lying in the grass
a peacock’s tail spreads
and falls apart
C. Jean Downer
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
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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