Birds of a Feather

Haiku by Paula Sears, Ruth Holzer, and Carly Siegel Thorp

Birds of a Feather
Photo Credit: Nancy Brady

morning light
a blue-winged teal
waking upriver

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A screenshot of the haiku that reads lifting / the blues / indigo bunting

Paula Sears
Exeter, NH, USA


picnic grove
a whisky jack
lands on my hat

Ruth Holzer
Herndon, VA


mooring ball a cormorant widens its wings

Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, MA, USA


Editor Bio: Nancy Brady is a pharmacist by vocation and a poet by avocation. Her main literary focus is Japanese short poetry forms with her haiku and senryu having been published in journals around the world. In 2023, she became an author of a children’s book The Adventures of Aloysius, which has subsequently been catalogued in the Library of Congress. She is interested in photography and has, for more than ten years, spent some of her free time as a volunteer at the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Center.


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