Summer's Sorrow

Allyson’s Note: Thanks to Michele Rule for serving as guest editor this past week!

summer wind
the whiff of mown grass I’m told
is the scent of its tears

Isabella Mori
Coast Salish / Vancouver
X/Twitter: moritherapy

red frangipani blooms
outside the hospice care
the skyfall

Lakshmi Iyer
Trivandrum, Kerala, India

last day of camp
kids no longer homesick
sobbing

Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, CA
Instagram: stormofcuteness
Threads: stormofcuteness
X/Twitter: stormofcuteness

ladies out for blood mosquitoes whine

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, ME, USA

Editor Bio: Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.

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