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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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)
cold spell
iguanas ?
falling from trees
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)
Lovely, Cherie
Beautifully done. All that a haiku should be.
lone bird on a wire
decrypting 1000
songs
Marita Gargiulo
across the tendrils of Enceladus silhouetted spider