after the solstice
waiting for the light
to change
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Alexa Selph
Alexa Selph is a native Atlantan, where she works as a freelance book editor and teaches poetry in the adult education program at Emory University. Her poems have been published in Poetry, Smartish Pace, Hummingbird and Modern Haiku, among others.
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8 thoughts on “”
everyone waits
for the light to change —
little chestnut moon
It is so wonderful to watch the days grow longer again. Here in Wisconsin, it is 6 AM and the sky is growing light and soon will rise over a wall of clouds. It's been cold and more of a winter this year. I often see deer in the night looking for food in the yard. Ellen
everyone waits
for the light to change —
little chestnut moon
Very beautiful!
mid-winter moon
chilled pale light
on your frozen breath
empty lot
under the rising moon
a perfect wheelie
Great haiku! Thanks.
It is so wonderful to watch the days grow longer again. Here in Wisconsin, it is 6 AM and the sky is growing light and soon will rise over a wall of clouds. It's been cold and more of a winter this year. I often see deer in the night looking for food in the yard. Ellen
new moon …
away from city lights
a local musher
I loved the way this started with something vast and zoomed right in to a person in a car waiting for a light to change! :)