Haiku--By Kelley White--United States

April 25^th—

Spring peepers singing

in a frozen pond.

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dry leaves

shake the night birches

cricket chirp

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hurrying

to my mother’s bedside

harvest moon

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the scarecrow’s shadow

crosses my path

autumn chill

  

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Stark winter sunlight

cracks the ice outside the door–

starting the trip home

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Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent books are Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.