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by Laurie D. Morrissey Summer 2023

still pond

all-day rain
a tentful
of ghost stories


evening paddle
      a great blue heron
            pulls me upriver


still pond
a turtle pokes his nose
through a cloud


hemlock shadow
— a trout
sips a fly

by Laurie D. Morrissey

Haiku from “still pond,” a chapter of summer poetry from Laurie D. Morrissey’s 2019 collection, the slant of april snow. Laurie D. Morrissey is a New Hampshire writer of articles, essays, and poetry. Her poems have been published in The Worcester Review, Poetry East, Blueline, Appalachia, and numerous journals and anthologies specializing in contemporary English-language haiku. Her most recent collection is all the stars i can swallow (Red Moon Press, 2022).

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