little things
clearer now
chickadee

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Ann Schechter

Ann Schechter spent most of her adult life in the Northeast. She participated in the poetry workshop at Skidmore College, but stopped writing for decades. The brevity and mindfulness of haiku inspired her to start writing again. About 5 years ago, she began submitting to haiku journals. Since then, her work has appeared in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Bones, The Heron's Nest, and Failed Haiku. When she returned to her native Oklahoma, Ann settled in a little house where she could sit outside under a cherry laurel tree and take in her suburban world. She is now enjoying her seventies enormously. "Ever since I was the littlest girl," she says, "I have loved nature, especially birds."

5 thoughts on “”

  1. For me, there is a lot of emotion in the phrase “little things”, seemingly unimportant but now realized, and the solid rhythmically pronounced sound of chickadee. How elegant!

    the call’s end of a Black-capped Chickadee… dee…dee…dee Pygmy Owl*

    *You Tube’s “8 Black-capped Chickadee Calls Explained"

  2. .
    ittle things
    clearer now
    chickadee

    —ANN SCHECHTER

    A lovely tight haiku of just five words! Beautiful!

    .

    I'm reminded of my haiku:

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    baby robins
    the world is reset
    for a moment

    Alan Summers
    Publication credit: Presence issue #61 2018
    Anthology: a hole in the light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2018

  3. Ann, the seeds of 'sight and sound's' imagination… grown so well here.
    __ Chickadees, are our state bird; seeing and hearing their warmth… the seasons matter little.._m

    blackcaps
    quickly found within this snow
    chirps of warm

  4. it starts with indefinite little things – irritations, love notes, etc.
    and brings them down to one thing – the chickadee
    from enigmatic to clear

    Thanks.

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