hard times
the bird bath freezes over
before sundown

 

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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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  1. Thanks for your comments, guys! When I wrote this sometime last year, little did I know how hard "hard times" could be!

  2. Yes, hard times!

    We are not through one pandemic (coronavirus) when we will receive another pandemic later this year (swine flu) coming back again.

    hard times
    the bird bath freezes over
    before sundown
    —ALEXA SELPH

    .

    freeze-dried tea
    so much curiosity over
    the moons of Mars

    Alan Summers
    brass bell: a haiku journal Tea Haiku / Haiku Tea issue November 2014

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