into the wild
Haiku by Eavonka Ettinger, kjmunro, Vandana Parashar, Adele Evershed, and Michele Rule
sea turtles
wading out just to see
them in the wild
Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, California, USA
wilderness tour all the bear bells & whistles
kjmunro
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
kjmunro1560.wordpress.com
Bluesky: @kj-munro.bsky.social
Instagram: @kj_munro
Facebook: Yukon Froghat
Twitter: @kjmmjk15
“no thoroughfare”
if only the wildflowers
knew
Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, India
wild hibiscus
pretending I smell nothing
on his breath
Adele Evershed
Wilton, Connecticut, USA
Bluesky: @adlibby
wildfire
might as well take up
smoking
Michele Rule
Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
www.michelerule.ca
Editor Bio: Jessica Allyson (pen name) is based in Ottawa, Canada. Jessica has been actively writing and studying haiku for the past several years and approaches the genre with a beginner’s mind. She is a member of the HSA’s Volery Mentorship Program as well as a member of Haiku Canada and its Trillium and KaDo groups. Jessica’s work has been featured in a range of publications including Haiku Canada and HSA anthologies, frogpond, the Asahi Haikuist Network column, Solitary Daisy and more. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase the work of her fellow haikuists here.
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