one wild breeze

Haiga by Miluše Míčková, Dinah Power, Joanna Ashwell, Marianne Paul, Claire Vogel Camargo, and C. Oulens

In Gratitude

First, my apologies for failing to acknowledge any contributors or guest editors last Sunday! I have been under the weather and was totally out of it last weekend. – Allyson

Thanks to the following Tip Jar contributors over the last two weeks:

Rebeca Thomas
Nancy Brady
Debbie Strange

Thanks also to Vidya Shankar for guest editing during the week of July 13th, and to Melanie Alberts for running our first haiga week!

seaside vacation
waves smoothing her sorrow
pebbles all around

Miluše Míčková
Strakonice, The Czech Republic

your sweetness
eases the doldrums
fragrant breeze

Dinah Power
Haifa, Israel

Editor Bio: A member of the Austin Haiku Group and a psychic artist, Melanie Alberts is writing a spiritual memoir combining haibun, tanka prose, and haiga. Her haiga galleries can be found on The Haiku Foundation website. She is a contributing editor of Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief. Melanie enjoys following fellow haiku writers, artists, psychics, and mediums from around the world on Instagram: @clair.circles.spirit.art 

Tip Jar

Haiku Girl Summer will always be a free publication. If you want to make a financial contribution, please visit Allyson Whipple’s Buy Me a Coffee page. Mention Haiku Girl Summer in the comment box and your donation will go into a pool that will be divided among the guest editors at the end of the 2026 editorial run.

Merch

If you want to even more ways to share the summer love, you can check out the Haiku Girl Summer merch shop. We have T-shirts and tank tops along with hats, mugs, buttons, and a spiral notebook. Email me if there are other items you’d like to see!