The Taste of August (Garden & Kitchen Light)
Haiku by Sumitra Kumar, Michele Rule, and Morag Elizabeth Humble
squirrel at breakfast
a half-eaten mango drops
from the tree
Sumitra Kumar
India
http://www.instagram.com/writer.poet.sumitra
garlic scapes
the stew rises above
its ordinary roots
Michele Rule
Kelowna BC Canada
www.michelerule.ca
peach sunrise
I scrape the bottom
of the jam jar
Morag Elizabeth Humble
Ottawa, ON, Canada
IG @guineafowlgirl
Editor Bio: C.X. Turner (she, they) is a UK poet and the author of evergreen – a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka (https://www.etsy.com/shop/cxturner). She is co-editor of Wales Haiku Journal and enjoys collaborating with other poets. IG @love.rpoetic
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