Daisies, A Petal at a Time
Haiku by B.L. Bruce, Jessica Allyson, Mary McCormack, and Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
July heat—
wild daisies rippling
beside the stream
B.L. Bruce
Corralitos, CA, USA
Instagram: b_l_bruce
Twitter: the_poesis
windsurfing
tiny insects ride
the daisies
Jessica Allyson
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
unknown
to us
the language of daisies
Mary McCormack
La Grange Park, IL, USA
www.marymwriter.com
deadheading daisies —
this season
a chance to rebloom
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
Dubuque, IA, 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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