August Slips Away

Haiku by Boryana Boteva, Diane Webster, Kila Lim, Nicoletta Ignatti, Valorie Woerdehoff, Nancy Orr, Betsy Hearne, Rupa Anand, Susan Lee Roberts, Wilda Morris, and Sari Grandstaff

Photo by Pascal Debrunner on Unsplash

In Gratitude

Thank you to this week’s tip jar contributors!

• Karin Hedetniemi

• Nancy Brady

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thunder storm
in August
my forgotten birthday

Boryana Boteva
Sofia, Bulgaria

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tire swing calm
in August heatwaves
lost tennis shoe

Diane Webster
Delta, Colorado United States
www.dianewebster.com

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august soiree
ladies in
diaphanous dresses

Kila Lim
Manila, Philippines

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in the pantry
stock of dried figs—
late August

Nicoletta Ignatti
Castallena Grotte, Italy

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smelling August shadows
toes deep
in wet grass

Valorie Woerdehoff
Dubuque, Iowa, USA

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august wanes
splashes of red
along the highway

Nancy Orr
Lewiston, Maine, USA

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red cabbage on sale
3 heads for 1
pickling August

Betsy Hearne
Urbana, IL, USA

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sultry August —
pocketing the wind
two little girls

Rupa Anand
New Delhi, India
Instagram @rupa.anand.775
Facebook: Rupa Anand

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my friend texts me|
her august moon
heart beats

Susan Lee Roberts
Montesano, Washington, USA

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dog days of August
my doberman
chases the neighbor’s duck

Wilda Morris
Bolingbrook, Illinois, USA

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moon bathing
on this humid night
the August feels

Sari Grandstaff
Woodstock, NY

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Editor Bio: Allyson Whipple is the founding editor of Haiku Girl Summer and current editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America. She is still hard at work on The Culinary Saijiki manuscript.

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