Senses and Sensibility

Haiku by Mona Bedi, Paula Sears, Nancy Orr, Korie Beth Brown, and Deborah A. Bennett

first drizzle
the blind man and I
talk about petrichor

Mona Bedi
Delhi, India

heirloom tomato sandwiches
in our picnic basket . . .
setting sun

Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

the plop
of a kingfisher
another old pond

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, Maine, USA

dry lightning—
between my shoulders
monsoon sweat

Korie Beth Brown
Sierre Madre, California, USA

from the twentieth floor
umbrellas on the subway stairs
peonies

Deborah A. Bennett
Carbondale, Illinois, 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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