Haiku--By Maralee Gerke--United States

winter soil
welcomes rain-
I imagine daffodils
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miniature hearts
in the snow-
my valentine from a mule deer
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snow melt
on patterned linoleum
my stocking feet
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winter evening-
my stone lantern
turbaned in snow
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Maralee Gerke lives and writes in Madras, Oregon. She is and avid reader and gardener. She describes herself as a work in progress. Her poems have been published in Calyx, Exit Thirteen, Moonset, Bathtub Gin, Anthology, Nerve Cowboy, Avocet, and Tigers Eye. She has published two books of poems and has had poetry and prose accepted in several anthologies. Her work can be seen online at Shadow Poetry, Long Story Short, and Moontown Café. She recently recorded 4 poems for the Oregon Poetic Voices Project. They can be heard at oregonpoeticvoices.org One of her poems “Refuge”, was recently selected to be printed as a limited edition broadside by the Penland School of Crafts.