Femininity
Haiku by Sarah Paris, Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Vandana Parashar, Sherri J. Moye-Dombrosk, and Katja Fox
in a lit room
a still woman
sultry night
Sarah Paris
Santa Rosa, California, USA
Instagram: @calswisspoet
strength
yet her softness...
tiger lily
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, Ohio, USA
on her bare back
a generous slathering
of moonlight
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, India
digging into soft
grey clay beside the creek
shaping my life
Sherri J. Moye-Dombrosk
Liberty, South Carolina, USA
sultry afternoon
a pearl of sweat trickles down
her décolleté
Katja Fox
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Instagram: @haikukati
Editor Bio: Katherine E. Winnick is the founding editor of the Shadow Pond Journal and part of the editorial team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. She was listed in the top 100 most creative haiku authors in EU 2023 and 2024 and selected amongst best of the Japan's Daily Newspaper The Mainichi 2023 an d 2024. Her senryū sollection, My Hennaed Hand, was published by Alien Buddha Press (2023). she served as coeditor and curator of the bestseller To Live Here published by The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press (2023).
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