sultry night
slack spun into the line
of spider’s silk

 

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Cherie Hunter Day

Cherie Hunter Day’s haiku and related forms have been widely published in journals and anthologies including: Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013); Where the River Goes (Snapshot Press, 2013); and Haiku 21 (Modern Haiku Press, 2011). Her third full-length haiku collection, for Want (Ornithopter Press, 2017) was shortlisted for The Haiky Foundation's Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards and received an Honorable Mention in the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Awards.

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  1. sultry night
    slack spun into the line
    of spider’s silk

    —CHERIE HUNTER DAY

    A neat show of dissonance, and that observation of spiders and their weaving. A wonderfully confident display of writing, and catching the spider, and the splendidness of their existence.

    Brilliant!

    mistfall
    the swansongs
    of orb spiders
     
    Alan Summers
    Scope (FAWQ magazine vol. 61 no. 6, 2015)

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