Picnics
Haiku by Paula Sears, Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff, Wilda Morris, and Bonnie J Scherer
patchwork quilt unfolding a picnic sky
Paula Sears
Exeter, NH, USA
beach day
our picnic lunch seasoned
with sunscreen
Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff
Dubuque, IA, USA
after the picnic the taste of a watermelon sunset
Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, IL, USA
the heat
of rhubarb and red cabbage
picnic fare
Bonnie J Scherer
Palmer, AK, USA
Editor Bio: Nancy Brady is a pharmacist by vocation and a poet by avocation. Her main literary focus is Japanese short poetry forms with her haiku and senryu having been published in journals around the world. In 2023, she became an author of a children’s book The Adventures of Aloysius, which has subsequently been catalogued in the Library of Congress. She is interested in photography and has, for more than ten years, spent some of her free time as a volunteer at the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Center.
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