day of surgery
this sudden interest
in my lifeline
Author: Kim Klugh
Kim Klugh lives with her husband in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she is an English/writing tutor at a local college. Her haiku and senryu have appeared in Failed Haiku, Modern Haiku, Wales Haiku Journal, Poetry Pea, The Heron's Nest, Frogpond, and Autumn Moon Haiku Journal.
another stranger
far from home…
lone coyote
summer blues
the drooping mopheads
of the hydrangea
family stories…
so many versions
of the truth
tattered wings
the slow fade
of a monarch’s reign
wild rose–
the child
they never expected
lone sunflower
in the zinnia patch…
the struggle to belong