Preserves
Haiku by Vaishnavi Ramaswamy, Marjorie Pezzoli, Leena Anandhi, Julie Bloss Kelsey, and Nancy Brady
kulfi melt—
the glistening sweat
on the vendor's pot
Vaishnavi Ramaswamy
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
a beekeeper
slicing honeycomb
her blue irises
Marjorie Pezzoli
overnight mud pot
the rice water resurrects
my grandma
Leena Anandhi
Kochi, Kerala, India
berry juice
staining the table
grandpa's pie
Julie Bloss Kelsey
Germantown, Maryland, USA
just enough
fruit for one jar
—wild strawberry jam
Nancy Brady
Huron, Ohio, USA
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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Merch
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