I We begin as vegetables, climbing up from seeds like pumpkin vines atop the wooden garden trellis. All winter we’ve waited, tubers in the frozen earth, dreaming of leeks and apples, the breeze in the flowering pear. II There is an acorn within me, skipping madly between my ribs. O once I was wild grass, … Continue reading Poem: There is Sunlight, There is Wind
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Haiku in Modern Haiku
The following was included in the print-only issue of Modern Haiku, Volume 52.2, Summer 2021. Snowy branchold skinon my bones