if only
happiness were easy
paper flowers
rearranged
in a waterless vase

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Kat Lehmann

Kat Lehmann is a Touchstone Award-winning haiku poet and scientist based in Connecticut, USA. Kat is Co-Founder / Co-Editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, and a panelist for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Her third book is Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid poems. Twitter/Instagram: @SongsOfKat.

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    1. Very nice, Paul! I think happiness is always a work in progress. Perhaps contentment and ease are the flowers we arrange, when we could just appreciate the blooms as they are.

  1. .
    Happiness is a strange animal we find by not looking or attempting to purchase.
    .
    .
    snow on the tracks
    the Italian customs officer
    grins at my passport

    Alan Summers
    in memory of the first snow I had personally seen in Europe for decades. The magic even got to border officials. :-)

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