One Last Picnic

gnarled apricot tree
still bears fruit—so many
climbing children

Miriam Sagan
USA

spilling the beans
a few too many
picnic beers

Colleen M. Farrelly
Miami, FL, USA

potluck
pear salad served
on lettuce

Amber Winter
New Freedom, Pennsylviania, USA

campfire cooking . . .
a hint of wood notes
to the hamburgers

Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Fairlawn, Ohio, USA

under the pine tree
picnic table carved with initials
ants march on

Diane Webster
Delta, Colorado United States
www.dianewebster.com

heat warning
brewing iced tea
before midday

Jessica Allyson
Ottawa, Canada

at the pond
licking the shoreline
ice cream

Carla Schwartz
Meredith, New Hampshire and Carlisle, Massachussets, USA

new love
ripening
blackberries

Sherry Reniker
Kent, Washington USA

honor system . . .
scribbling a note
for tonight's tomatoes

Paula Sears
Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

patiently I wait
slowly turning over the embers
golden crust on my marshmallow

Jennifer Gurney
Broomfield, Colorado, USA

Support system
Coffee and doughnuts
Arches of violets

Sarah Mahina Calvello
San Francisco, California, USA

hot and humid
the cucumbers
grow like weeds

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, Maine, USA

ripe mango
the drip
of sticky hands

Nitu Yumnam
UAE

ice cream cone
only thing I let my
nose kiss

Laila Brahmbhatt
New York, New York, USA

fish and chip supper
we sprinkle salt
into old wounds

Adele Evershed
Wilton, Ct, USA
Bluesky: @adlibby

back for tea
a bucket of tadpoles
swishing beside me

Joanna Ashwell
United Kingdom
www.joannaashwell.com

unripe honeydew
using two hands
to push the spoon

Mary McCormack
www.marymwriter.com
Instagram: @haiku_mary

kitchen garden
fresh picked snap peas
sweet green crispness

JL Huffman
Blue Ridge Mountains of NC
jlhuffman.com
Twitter: @JoanHuffmanMD

fresh greens
ladybug eating aphids
picnic time for all

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

late dinner outside
bird songs
close out the evening

Caroline Wermuth
State College, Pennsylvania, USA

Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current managing editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki manuscript.

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