The Wind and the Rain

Haiku by Paula Sears, Betsy Hearne, and Monica Kakkar

The Wind and the Rain
Photo by Espen Bierud on Unsplash

a salamander skitters
through the leaf litter
windflowers

Paula Sears
Exeter, NH


a lonely basement
welcomes company
tornado season

Betsy Hearne
Urbana, IL, USA


after the deep clean
savor a myriad greens . . .
my neighbors' glances

Monica Kakkar
India and USA


Editor Bio: Carol Dorf’s writing has been published in the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press), and Given (Origami Poems Project), as well as in journals that include The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Shofar, Responsa, Great Weather for Media, The Mom Egg, Abyss and Apex, Unlikely Stories, About Place, Slipstream, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Scientific American, and Maintenant. She is a Zoeglossia fellow as well as the founding poetry editor of Talking Writing. She’s taught in a variety of settings including a day school, a large public high school, at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley City College, and at conferences.


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