Blowing up

Haiku by Kelly Sargent, Tracy Davidson and Adele Evershed

Blowing up
Photo by Matthias Götzke on Unsplash

blowing up
the beach ball
anger management

Kelly Sargent
Williston, Vermont USA


jellyfish the sting of his pee

Tracy Davidson
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK
Twitter: @tracydavidson27


knickerbocker glory
the pink and white layers
of my calluses

Adele Evershed
Wilton, CT, USA
@AdLibby1


Editor Bio: C.X. Turner (she/they) is the pen name for a social worker, manager and writer, living and working in the UK. They love experimenting with Japanese short-forms and collaborating with other poets. Co-Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, their debut solo collection, evergreen: a collection of haiku, senryū and tanka was recently published by Alba Publishing and they are also the author of anemones: a mini haiku chapbook (Yavanika Press)and co-author of Building Sandcastles: a book of short poems (Literary Revelations)Find them on X @lover__poetic. 


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