Summer Eats & Treats

Haiku by Mariel Herbert, Marjorie Pezzoli, Cyndi Lloyd, and Lorraine A Padden

Summer Eats & Treats
Photo Credit: Nancy Brady

mirage
butter slides down
each kernel

Mariel Herbert (she/her)
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snow cones and carnies
melting with excitement
we ride all the rides

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lobster boil
melting butter
bibs for everyone

Marjorie Pezzoli
San Diego, CA, USA
Website:
http://www.PezzoliArt.com


heat lightning—
brain freeze from
the Slurpee

Cyndi Lloyd
Riverton, UT, USA


perfect sticks
the campfire bundle
of smores

Lorraine A Padden
San Diego, CA, USA
Website:
lorrainepadden.com


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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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