Swimsuit Season

Haiku by Esther Rohm, Deborah Karl-Brandt, Mary McCormack, and Adele Evershed

Swimsuit Season
Photo by Guzmán Barquín on Unsplash

tan lines seeing myself in a new light

Esther Rohm
Dayton, OH USA


white lines in a tanned face
all of her smiles
I missed out

Deborah Karl-Brandt
Bonn, Germany


that extra hesitation
before stepping outside —
bikini

Mary McCormack
www.marymwriter.com


aperol spritz
he suggests I order
tummy control swim wear

Adele Evershed
Wilton, Connecticut, USA
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Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer. She currently serves as the newsletter editor for the Haiku Society of American and is the author of the haiku chapbook Postcards from Texas (Cuttlefish Books, 2023).


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