Reflections
Haiku by Mariel Herbert, Laila B, and Nancy Orr
weekend drive
skipping stones across
a blue sky
Mariel Herbert
Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
searching for shore
moonlight swims
in a roadside ditch
Laila B
New York, NY, USA
clouds catch
the last light
storm coming
Nancy Orr
Lewiston, ME, USA
Editor Bio: Caroline Wermuth coordinated the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry, the Public Poetry Project, and the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for the Pennsylvania Center for the Book in the Penn State Libraries. Her poems have appeared in Northern Appalachia Review, Frogpond, Heron’s Nest, World Haiku Review, Haiku Girl Summer and in the New Jersey Botanical Gardens (NJBG).
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