Shimmering

Haiku by Marjolein Rotsteeg, Eavonka Ettinger, Carly Siegel Thorp and Morag Elizabeth Humble

Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

two wasps
learn to swim
in my wine

Marjolein Rotsteeg
Hoenderloo, The Netherlands
https://mastodon.nl/@MarjoleinRotsteeg

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coral
reefs
in
hot
water
rescue
crew

Eavonka Ettinger
Long Beach, CA

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ebb tide
weaving the cordgrass
fiddler crabs

Carly Siegel Thorp
Sterling, MA, USA

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sun-soaked lake
diamonds sparkle out of reach
of my fishing line

Morag Elizabeth Humble
Ottawa, Canada
IG: @guineafowlgirl

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Editor Bio: C.X. Turner (she/they) is the pen name for a social worker, manager and writer, living and working in the UK. They love experimenting with Japanese short-forms and collaborating with other poets. Co-Editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, their debut solo collection, evergreen: a collection of haiku, senryū and tanka was recently published by Alba Publishing and they are also the author of anemones: a mini haiku chapbook (Yavanika Press), and co-author of Building Sandcastles: a book of short poems (Literary Revelations). Find them on X @lover__poetic. 

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