In Gratitude

Thank you to Katherine E. Winnick for serving as this week’s guest editor!

playing the field
a bumblebee moves
from flower to flower

Vandana Parashar
Panchkula, India

lemon spritzers
she puckers up
their first kiss

Marjorie Pezzoli
San Diego, California, USA
www.PezzoliArt.com

wildflower meadow you kiss me wild

Mary McCormack
www.marymwriter.com
Instagram: @haiku_mary

ghost orchid
the love she keeps
to herself

Stefanie Bucifal
Konstanz, Germany

learning
to be wives
the new brides

Ruth Holzer
Location
Website/social media

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 and 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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Merch

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