summer sunlight
through a green lace canopy
the energy
that slips through
my imperfect plans
Author: Kat Lehmann
Kat Lehmann is a Touchstone Award-winning haiku poet and scientist based in Connecticut, USA. Kat is Co-Founder / Co-Editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem, and a panelist for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Her third book is Stumbling Toward Happiness: Haibun and Hybrid poems. Twitter/Instagram: @SongsOfKat.
if only
happiness were easy
paper flowers
rearranged
in a waterless vase
3am Tao
I try to sleep
without trying
when home
isn’t
owl echoes
river rock erosion I sit for a few angstroms