Spread Your Wings
Haiku by Joan C Fingon, Janet Ruth, Sherry Reniker, Paula Sears, and Marilyn Humbert
misty morning
stretching its wings
a gray heron
Joan C Fingon
Ventura, California, USA
sun salutations
rufous hummingbird's
elliptical swoops
Janet Ruth
Corrales, New Mexico, USA
wild cherry picnic—
the nests of rose-breasted
Grosbeaks
Sherry Reniker
Kent, Washington, USA
soft dusk
rippling the pond
a loon ferries her loonlets
Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
on the boardwalk…
a pink-foot pigeon
struts with the surfers
Marilyn Humbert
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth worked for the Penn State University Libraries for thirty-four years, seventeen of which were spent in the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, coordinating book and poetry awards and author events. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer, etc., and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG). In 2025, she served as a guest editor for Haiku Girl Summer.
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