Pestilence
Haiku by wanda amos, Wilda Morris, Jo Balistreri, Sari Grandstaff, Erin Castaldi, Sandra Simpson, Ruth Holzer, Anju Kishore, and Amber Winter
a scorcher...
so friendly
the flies
wanda amos
Old Bar, Australia
thank God
the lake flies are gone
but the gnats . . .
Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA
first sunny day
carpenter ants
join me on the porch
Jo Balistreri
Waukesha, Wisconsin, US
scourge of mosquitos
next to the gas station
we scratch our Lotto tickets
Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, NY, USA
The weevil
by its wits
long walks in the wood
Erin Castaldi
Mays Landing, New Jersey, USA
hoya aphids
I decide to hold
nothing back
Sandra Simpson
New Zealand
https://breathhaiku.wordpress.com/
afternoon moon
crossing a field
full of ticks
Ruth Holzer
Potomac Falls, Virginia, USA
season's end
a maggot's turn to sink
into mangoflesh
Anju Kishore
sand flea
he asks for her number
again
Amber Winter
New Freedom, Pennsylvania, USA
Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki.
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