Butterflies

Haiku by Paula Sears, Juliet Wilson, and Kimberly Kuchar

Photo Credit: Nancy Brady

Note from Allyson Whipple: Thanks to Nancy Brady for serving as guest editor this week! Thanks also to our recent tip jar contributors:

• Anonymous

• Mark Forrester

• Margaret Walker

• Caroline Wermuth

• Clare Stewart

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Sunday morning. . .
a meadow fritillary
flutters to the steeplebush

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a karner blue
over the field of lupine
endless sky

Paula Sears
Exeter, NH, USA

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skylarksong—
blue butterflies flutter
in heat hazed fields

Juliet Wilson
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Substack: Crafty Green Poet

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peak fashion
my purple fanny pack
attracts a butterfly

Kimberly Kuchar
Austin, TX, USA

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Editor Bio: Nancy Brady is a pharmacist by vocation and a poet by avocation. Her main literary focus is Japanese short poetry forms with her haiku and senryu having been published in journals around the world. In 2023, she became an author of a children’s book The Adventures of Aloysius, which has subsequently been catalogued in the Library of Congress. She is interested in photography and has, for more than ten years, spent some of her free time as a volunteer at the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Center.

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