After Dark

at night from the Interstate
carnival rides
like electric candy

Caroline Wermuth
Pennsylvania, USA

curl up in coolness . . .
well within a whisker of
Eastern whip-poor-will

Monica Kakkar
India and USA
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicakakkar/

now fireflies here now gone

Sangita Kalarickal
Minnesota, USA

jacaranda-
sharing my pillow
with a stranger

Katherine E Winnick
Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Links: linktr.ee/katherineewinnick

fireworks . . .
after the show
the moon lingers

Barrie Levine
Wenham, MA, USA

Editor Bio: Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.

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