Five Haiku from a Pandemic as if all were right with the world - magnolia blooms *** protecting each other's solitude - path through the bamboo *** all day rain - i add more flour to the kneaded dough *** fresh spring breeze - the wildflower field between our morning greeting *** shortest day - does the lark too grasp the great truth?
Deborah A. Bennett began writing Haiku as a mindfulness exercise at the beginning of the pandemic; now she writes it as a form of self expression, and as the poet Mary Ruefle said, “in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.”
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