Heat

Haiku by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams, Patricia Carragon, and Kelly Sargent

Heat
Photo by Daniel Tuttle on Unsplash

heat dome
the garden pinwheel
at a standstill

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, OH, USA


Brooklyn sunshine
bus driver’s attitude
adds clouds to sky

Patricia Carragon
Brooklyn, NY, USA


in her absence
only the cactus
in bloom

Kelly Sargent
Williston, VT, USA


Editor Bio: Carol Dorf is a Zoeglossia fellow, whose books include “Theory-Headed Dragon.” Their writing appears on the Poetry Foundation website, and in journals that include “Pleiades,” ”About Place," “Cutthroat,” “Braving the Body,” “American Stories” and ”Scientific American.” They are founding poetry editor of Talking Writing.


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